Politics
Jack Schlossberg Says ‘Family Is Complicated,’ Admits He Doesn’t ‘Know’ a Lot of the Kennedys
The grandson of former President John F. Kennedy made a rare comment about being part of a famous American political dynasty.
Jack Schlossberg, 33, revealed which relatives he’s close with in an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning on Sunday, March 1, in which he discussed his current campaign in the House for New York’s 12th Congressional District.
“For me, when you talk about the Kennedy family, it’s a lot of people I don’t know. When you talk about what family is, it’s me, my sisters, my parents. We’re a unit, and we’re really close,” he explained of his mother, Caroline Kennedy, father Edwin Schlossberg, and sisters Rose and Tatiana, who died in December.
“It’s all good, but family is complicated,” he concluded.
Schlossberg has hinted in the past that not only is he not particularly close with the other Kennedys, but that they’re not a singular unit at all, joking: “There is no ‘family’ — it’s not The Godfather.”
“We don’t all meet every year and have a discussion about what to do,” Schlossberg told New York Magazine in an article published in August. “It’s just a bunch of individual people.”
One member of the Kennedy family that Schlossberg has been vocal about in the past is his cousin and current Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“[He] tries to pretend that he embodies a progressive agenda when he is in fact using his last name and lending it to President Trump who is dismantling everything my family stood for,” Schlossberg told CBS in the interview.
