Donald Trump mocks Kennedy family after Tatiana Schlossberg’s death

president Donald Trump Just hours after the incident, he shared several screenshots mocking the Kennedy family die Tatiana Schlossbergdaughter of caroline kennedy and the late president’s granddaughter. John F.Kennedy.

Trump, 79, posted various screenshots of social media posts via truth society Tuesday, Dec. 30, in defense of renaming the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the Trump Kennedy Center. Some of the posts were harshly critical of the famous Kennedy family.

One post read: “By the way, the Kennedy family has long neglected the Kennedy Center. They don’t raise money for it. They never show up. The only Kennedys who have been there recently are members of Trump’s cabinet.”

Another social media post read: “The Trump family has always been a supporter of the arts. The Kennedy family is a supporter of the Kennedy family.”

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Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, is making an impact after going public about her health struggles. Tatiana wrote an article for The New Yorker in November 2025, revealing that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Doctors estimated she had a year to live. “I don’t – can’t – (…)

Just hours ago, the Kennedy family announced the death of Tatiana, who died on Tuesday at the age of 35. Diagnosed with advanced acute myeloid leukemiaIn May 2024, after the birth of her second child, she developed a form of cancer.

“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the Kennedy Library Foundation said in a statement posted on Instagram on Tuesday. The post was signed by Tatiana’s husband, George Moranparents of their two children, Edwin, 3, and Josephine, 19 months. Edwin Schlossberg and Carolinebrothers and sisters Jack and Ross Schlossbergand her sister-in-law, Rory McAuliffe.

“My first thought was that my children would not remember me and that their faces would forever live on the inside of my eyelids,” Tatiana wrote in a letter. new yorker prose It was announced last month that she had been diagnosed with cancer. “My son may have some memories, but he may start to confuse them with pictures he sees or stories he hears. I never really cared for my daughter—I couldn’t change her diaper, bathe her, or feed her, all because of the risk of post-transplant infection. I was gone for almost half of her first year. I don’t know who she thought I was or whether she would feel or remember me as her mom when I was gone.”

Meanwhile, in Washington, the White House press secretary Caroline Levitt written in a X The Dec. 18 post said the Kennedy Center board of directors, which is entirely appointed by Trump, “voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center the Trump-Kennedy Center because of the incredible work President Trump has done over the past year to save this building.”

The move was criticized by members of the Kennedy family, including Maria ShriverKennedy’s niece.

“The Kennedy Center is named after my uncle, President John F. Kennedy. It is named after him. He was a man who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language and history,” she wrote in a Dec. 18 Instagram post. “He brought art into the White House, he and my Aunt Jackie (Kennedy Onassis) amplified art, celebrated art, stood up for art and artists.”

Shriver added: “It’s incomprehensible that a sitting president would try to rename this great monument that honors President John F. Kennedy. It’s crazy that he thinks it’s acceptable to add his own name in front of President Kennedy’s. It’s not.”