WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg for his “ridiculous comments” about the Trump administration after he launched his Manhattan congressional bid Wednesday.
Schlossberg, 32, is the only grandson of President Kennedy, whose nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. serves as Trump’s secretary of health and human services.
Schlossberg trashed his elder relative as a “rabid dog” and called the Trump administration “the most corrupt in American history” as he rolled out his campaign.
“I don’t even think such ridiculous comments are worth responding to. Obviously, those things are not true,” Leavitt told The Post at her regular brieifng.
“Secretary Kennedy is doing a phenomenal job bringing transparency and the gold standard of science back to our healthcare system,” she added.
Schlossberg dissed his mother Caroline Kennedy’s first cousin in an interview with MSNBC as he made his bid official.
“[Trump] is so obsessed with the Kennedys, and the Kennedy name and the Kennedy brand, that he caged one and put it in his cabinet, a rabid dog in his cabinet,” Schlossberg said. “Put a collar on my cousin, RFK Jr., and has him there barking, spreading lies and spreading misinformation.”
The Kennedy scion added: ““I don’t think it takes a genius to know that the Trump administration is the most corrupt in American history. And I don’t know who’s paying [RFK Jr.], but I know that what he’s saying isn’t making anybody healthier or safer, and that the American people should know, when he barks, who’s actually talking.”
Schlossberg would represent Midtown, the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side if he wins next year’s election.
