{"id":90918,"date":"2017-04-24T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=90918"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:17:39","slug":"jared-kushner-calls-kim-jong-un-totally-unqualified-person-who-got-job-only-through-nepotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/jared-kushner-calls-kim-jong-un-totally-unqualified-person-who-got-job-only-through-nepotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Kushner Calls Kim Jong-un \u201cTotally Unqualified Person\u201d Who Got Job only through Nepotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90920\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Borowitz-JaredKushnerCallsKimJong-unTotallyUnqualified-690.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90920\" class=\"wp-image-90920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Borowitz-JaredKushnerCallsKimJong-unTotallyUnqualified-690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Borowitz-JaredKushnerCallsKimJong-unTotallyUnqualified-690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Borowitz-JaredKushnerCallsKimJong-unTotallyUnqualified-690-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTOGRAPH BY MANDEL NGAN \/ AFP \/ GETTY<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>18 Apr 2017 &#8211; <\/em>Offering a stunningly blunt appraisal of the North Korean leader, Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that Kim Jong-un was a \u201ctotally unqualified person\u201d who attained his position of power only through nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere you have a guy who has no government experience, and he\u2019s in charge of the whole thing,\u201d Kushner said, in an interview with Fox News. \u201cIt\u2019s the craziest thing I\u2019ve ever heard of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kushner noted that, instead of working his way up and acquiring the skills necessary to do his job, the North Korean leader\u00a0had been given huge\u00a0responsibilities and power \u201conly because of family connections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only one word for that,\u201d he said. \u201cNepotism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kushner called the notion of such an unqualified person conducting foreign policy \u201cbeyond belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, why would you let someone with no experience in foreign affairs anywhere near such important decisions?\u201d Kushner added. \u201cWhy would anyone take someone like that seriously?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kushner said that the people of North Korea must look at the powerful position attained by the \u201ctotally inexperienced and unqualified\u201d Kim and shake their heads. \u201cThey\u2019ve got to be asking themselves, \u2018Who elected him?\u2019\u00a0\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-51101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>Andy Borowitz is a <\/em>New York Times<em> best-selling author and a comedian who has written for <\/em>The New Yorker<em> since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever <\/em>National Press Club<em> award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by <\/em>The New Yorker<em> in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/?p=3339783&amp;mbid=nl_041817%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&amp;CNDID=46318546&amp;spMailingID=10847686&amp;spUserID=MTcxMTA2NTc5Nzc1S0&amp;spJobID=1141439975&amp;spReportId=MTE0MTQzOTk3NQS2\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere you have a guy who has no government experience, and he\u2019s in charge of the whole thing,\u201d Kushner said, in an interview with Fox News. \u201cIt\u2019s the craziest thing I\u2019ve ever heard of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}