The other night, I was beefing up my tinnitus by watching Hardball when the subject of Self-in-law Jared Kushner’s hyper-portfolio came up.
Middle East peace? China? The total restructuring of government? Jared’s got this.
This remarkable young man, all by himself without staff, is tasked with just about all that hard presidentin’ stuff.
Matthews asked his ‘Pub talking head guest Matt Schlapp a reasonable question: What qualifications does this real estate heir and nothing else have to tackle these complicated assignments?
Schlapp’s response, barely paraphrased: “He’s qualified because the president listens to him.”
That is, it seems, the definition of expertise in this Bizarro World presidency: if you can get Himself to look away from Fox and Friends for five seconds and actually listen to two consecutive sentences, you are now the World’s Foremost Authority on whatever it is you’re talking about (profound apologies to Prof. Corey).
That’s it. No experience. No academic background. Heck, maybe even no particular interest in the subject. Just the ability to hold Himself’s attention for a few brief seconds.
I can’t say I’m surprised at this, only curious why he didn’t stock his cabinet with beauty contestants.