Wednesday, August 17, 2022

NY Times' Brutal Review Of Kushner's Memoir

 

Jared "Mr. Ivanka Trump" Kushner, the symbol of nepotism that the Malignant Loser brought into the White House along with his lusted-after daughter Ivanka, apparently has written a memoir, and it's everything you'd imagine from a smug rich boy who joined his father-in-law's business and thought he too could "fix it." New York Times book reviewer Dwight Garner was ready with a rapier and hot coals to apply to master Jared's fanny:

"The United States Secret Service isn’t known for its sense of humor, but when it gave Jared Kushner the code name “mechanic,” was someone betting that he’d call his memoir “Breaking History”?

It’s a title that, in its thoroughgoing lack of self-awareness, matches this book’s contents. Kushner writes as if he believes foreign dignitaries (and less-than dignitaries) prized him in the White House because he was the fresh ideas guy, the starting point guard, the dimpled go-getter.

He betrays little cognizance that he was in demand because, as a landslide of other reporting has demonstrated, he was in over his head, unable to curb his avarice, a cocky young real estate heir who happened to unwrap a lot of Big Macs beside his father-in-law, the erratic and misinformed and similarly mercenary leader of the free world. Jared was a soft touch."  (our emphasis)

OK, so tell us what you really think:

“'Breaking History' is an earnest and soulless — Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one — and peculiarly selective appraisal of Donald J. Trump’s term in office. Kushner almost entirely ignores the chaos, the alienation of allies, the breaking of laws and norms, the flirtations with dictators, the comprehensive loss of America’s moral leadership, and so on, ad infinitum, to speak about his boyish tinkering (the 'mechanic') with issues he was interested in.

This book is like a tour of a once majestic 18th-century wooden house, now burned to its foundations, that focuses solely on, and rejoices in, what’s left amid the ashes: the two singed bathtubs, the gravel driveway and the mailbox. Kushner’s fealty to Trump remains absolute. Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo."

The entire review is a masterpiece. We predict Kushner's book will hit the discount bin faster than you can say "what about the $2 billion Saudi bribe for you?"

We can't wait for master Jared's sequel, "The Coup Next Time."


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