The Unbearable Whiteness of Jared Kushner

Nowhere but in Trump’s America can the mediocrity of White men get a pass

Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner looks on during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 2. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP, via Getty Images

Jared Kushner calling the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic a “great success story” is exactly on-bullshit-brand for the First Son-in-Law of the United States.

Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday, Kushner boldly declared that, “We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this, and I think that we’ve achieved all of the different milestones that are needed.” President Trump’s senior advisor went on to praise how “the federal government rose to the challenge.”

Kushner’s reckless remarks in the midst of the hell that is the coronavirus has me thinking about how we have no problem being condescending towards brilliant and overqualified women of color, like Stacey Abrams or even Kamala Harris, while letting mediocre White men fail up their whole lives.

“Jared Kushner is so dead inside, the president calls him ‘Melania,’” late night TV host, Jimmy Kimmel joked on his show. “Jared Kushner looks like if white privilege had a baby with raw cookie dough. Jared Kushner looks like a PEZ dispenser of Young Sheldon. Even Jared from Subway is like, ‘this Jared gives me the creeps!’ The idea that Jared thinks things are going great is nuts.” While Kimmel could not be…