This must have piqued. The Crown Prince of Entitlement, Jared Kushner, was embarrassingly locked out of a building where he had a meeting and for somebody whose default position is that the world revolves around him, that must have been a downer indeed. Not to mention the fact that of the ubiquitous presence of the press. Esquire:
It’s been said more than once that the most accurate fictional portrayal of Washington is not The West Wing or House of Cards, but Veep. Maybe that was really true before American politics completely lost its mind. Now the president can be found in Montana, slurring his words as he tried to decry the “anonymous” figure from his White House who penned a New York Times op-ed admitting El Jefe’s elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor. These days, of course, the show is unscripted. Forget Sorkin—it’s some combination of WWE Smackdown, The Real Housewives, and Survivor.
Hey, it’s Jared. I’m outside. Can someone let me in? … Jared KUSHNER, the president’s son-in-law … I’m here for the NAFTA negotiations … Can someone unlock the door? … There are reporters out here asking me about the op-ed, & it’s getting awkward. pic.twitter.com/in0FHsTtIr
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 7, 2018
Kushner was locked out of the Winder Building in Washington, D.C., which houses the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the site of NAFTA negotiations.
This is a boilerplate bureaucratic fuck-up transformed into a full-on News Event because the reality TV presidency must be captured in full, at all times. It’s always newsworthy. After all, we’re always coming off some drama from one of the contestants. Of course, it’s not truly reality TV to the millions of people whose lives have and will be derailed or worse by the malevolent dimwits who joined this administration. Kushner, an encyclopedia-entry example for “nepotism case,” deserves only mockery and scorn, and should be shunned from civil society if we ever make it out the other side of his father-in-law’s tenure as the world’s most powerful man. But we can also giggle at this Mike McClintock-ass moment.
Kushner may one day look back on this seemingly insignificant moment as a foretaste of things to come, as a great many doors will be closed to him when this fiasco is over.
