CNN's Jake Tapper leads outrage as Trump attacks Kennedy family hours after death of JFK's granddaughter
Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, the middle child of JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy, died on Tuesday after announcing that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper has attacked Donald Trump after the president mocked the Kennedy family hours after the death of JFK's granddaughter.
'In the early afternoon, ET, the Kennedy family announced that JFK's granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg had died from cancer,' Tapper posted on X on Tuesday.
'A few hours later, President Trump re-posted some social media garbage attacking the Kennedy family.'
Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, the middle child of JFK's daughter Caroline Kennedy, died on Tuesday, a month after she publicly announced her diagnosis with acute myeloid leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
The news was shared by the JFK Library Foundation, on behalf of the family, including Tatiana's husband, Dr. George Moran, and their young children, Edwin and Josephine.
Trump did not name Tatiana directly in his social media onslaught, which was directed at the family over its criticism of his renaming the historic Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
The Trump administration rebranded the venue as the Trump-Kennedy Center, sparking fury. The arts and culture site, which opened in 1971, was dedicated as a memorial to JFK following his assassination in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.
Trump shared screenshots on his Truth Social from MAGA supporters attacking the famous political clan, with claims that they had allowed the Kennedy Center to fall into disrepute.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for a New Year's Eve event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December 31, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida
Tatiana Schlossberg attends Intelligencer Live: Our Warmer Future presented by New York Magazine and Brookfield Place on September 05, 2019 in New York City
'The Kennedy Family have LONG neglected the Kennedy Center, btw,' asserted one. 'They don't raise money for it. They never show up. And the only Kennedy who has been there recently is a member of Trump's cabinet.'
'The Trumps have always been supporters of the arts. The Kennedys are supporters of the Kennedys,' claimed another.
Tapper was not alone in criticizing the timing of Trump's posts.
'Just when you think he can't get any lower. He is truly an evil man,' said one X user.
Another wrote: 'The person occupying the White House is a mean, nasty, evil, rotten, disrespectful, thoughtless turd.'
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on December 18 that the Kennedy Center's Board of Directors voted unanimously to rebrand the iconic venue the Trump-Kennedy Center.