If you’ve ever laid eyes on Jared Kushner, you know that the the 37-year-old husband of Ivanka Trump often affects the wide-eyed look a man who frequently uses the word “papa.”
We assume just weeks before he entered the public eye, Kushner sported Goldilocks curls and was often seen enjoying a brightly-colored, cartoonishly over-sized lollipop.
What we’re saying is, the Kush’s aesthetic doesn’t quite fit with the supreme alpha, cuck-trampling, charred-steaks-with-ketchup image that Donald Trump has worked so hard to cultivate.
As a result, the boy wonder who was once charged with everything from securng peace in the Middle East to solving America’s opioid crisis has hallen out of favor with the president in recent months.
To be fair, there are many reasons that Trump and Kushner’s bromance has come to an end in recent weeks, not the least of which is that Jared has proven horribly unqualified for the many tasks set before him.
To make matters worse, the Robert Mueller investigation is reportedly zeroing in on Kushner in a way that may soon leave the disgraced convict’s son eyeing whatever options will allow him to escape his father’s fate, up to and including testifying against the
So it should come as no surprise thay Trump is not only distancing himself from Jared and Ivanka, he’s targeting his signature brand of schoolyard trash talk squarely at the son-in-law that he used to favor above his own sons.
Much has been made of the fact that Jared and Ivanka were the only members of the extended Trump clan to not join the president at Mar-A-Lago for the weekend’s Easter festivities.
Yes, the couple practices orthodox Judaism, but even Vanessa Trump made the trip to Palm Beach, despite the fact that she recently filed for divorce from Donald Trump Jr.
But according to new claims made in author Ronald Kessler’s The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game, the Donald’s disdain for Kushner predates the recent holiday by several months:
“Look at Jared, he looks like a little boy, like a child,” Trump reportedly complained after watching one of Kushner’s first TV appearances.
Kessler claims that Trump then informed Jared and Ivanka that “they never should have left New York.”
He “made it clear to them that he would not mind if they gave up their White House roles,” Kessler writes.
And this is hardly the first report of tension between Trump and Kushner.
The New York Times reported last month that Trump “privately asked” Chief of Staff John Kelly for help in removing Jared and Ianka from the White House.
But because being afraid of your daughter and her spindly husband is the ultimate alpha move, the president simultaneously encouraged Jared and Ivanka to remain in their current roles.
The best part of all this is that the Kushners are reportedly dying to return to their posh, relatively-felony-free life in Manhattan, but are staying on at the White House for fear of angering Trump.
“If they leave they’ll be happy to go back to their old lives,” a source close to the situation tells People magazine.
“They love their kids so much and this is so distracting, to be a young family and have all this pressure instead of focusing on the kids.”
It’s the type of awkward situation that every family can relate to.
The only difference is, when you don’t want to ask your great-aunt Cheryl for the gifr receipt for that panini-maker she got you for Christmas, it’s extremely unlikely that you’ll both wind up wearing county orange jumpsuits.
