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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJared Kushner Just Got The Humiliation Of A Lifetime On Live TV. Must Watch!
When President Trump took office, he took the bold step of giving Jared Kushner an unprecedented amount of power and responsibility based on the sole qualification that the 36-year-old is married to his daughter. Despite being far far far out of his depth, Kushners hermit-like public persona has saved him from the scrutiny he deserves in the first year of this presidency.
Until now. (Brutal video below.)
Kushner made an appearance at the Saban Forum as part of his role as lead U.S. negotiator for Middle East peace a job for which he has neither the qualifications nor aptitude.
Speaking on live television with Haim Saban, the forum founder and an Israeli-American telecom billionaire, Kushner seemed as if he thought he was in safe territory. Saban has made clear that his global political priority is Israeli security, and Kushner and Trump have actually sabotaged the peace process in order to give symbolic victories to his home country.
Saban let Kushner play expert for one full minute, listening to him rattle off a laundry list of Middle-Eastern issues as though he were diagnosing a complex problem when he was really giving a third grade report before he had heard enough.
I understand that, Saban said with a chuckle. But, to achieve that, the team has in it an entrepreneur, a real estate lawyer, a bankruptcy lawyer. I dont know how youve lasted eight months in this lineup, but thats for another day. And its impressive that its still going! Theres not a Middle East macher [Yiddish for expert] in this group, so, I mean, how do you operate with people who basically, you know
with all due respect, a bunch of Orthodox Jews who have no idea about anything?
And Saban was just getting started. Sure, he and Kushner may be ostensibly on the same pro-Israel side, but Saban is not an idiot. He understands that putting dangerously unqualified people into positions of real power is a threat to everybody. Its something only the most deeply entrenched factions of Donald Trumps base have yet to figure out.
This humiliating episode may help a few of them get there. The clip, with all its schadenfreude, is below. Kushners book report ends at the 1:03 mark, and Sabans zingers begin there:
http://washingtonjournals.com/jared-kushner-just-got-the-humiliation-of-a-lifetime-on-live-tv-must-watch/
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)sad.
LuckyCharms
(22,582 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)LMAO
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Ye gods, calling that rambling stream of consciousness a third grade book report is being kind.
underpants
(196,382 posts)The kids a natural. He missed his calling.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... the middle-schooler reading a book-report was a very apt comparison. Perfect.
Memorized and rote. No comprehension of what he's saying or what it means or how it relates... just like his F-I-L.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Glad he got taken over the coals. What a babbling idiot.
stonecutter357
(13,045 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)C_U_L8R
(49,351 posts)Kushner makes Trump's unqualified judge candidate look like a freaking judicial scholar.
Fullduplexxx
(8,626 posts)Such a fkg joke
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Pathetic. That guy was TOO kind to him. I would have asked him to answer the fucking question.
2naSalit
(102,579 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,625 posts)What a petulant little twit!
Sneederbunk
(17,473 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)brush
(61,033 posts)RoccoRyg
(260 posts)He's become one!
brush
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RoccoRyg
(260 posts)He produces a show about superheroes fighting monsters, and now he does it in real life. Get the joke?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)That was fun to watch.
robbob
(3,748 posts)But Ive got to say that crawler under the image is comedy gold! TRump has a long career of doing the impossible??? Yeah, right, like bankrupting a casino in Atlantic city? Or starting up a real estate company just weeks before the housing bubble burst?
Feel free to add your own thought on tRumps impossible accomplishments...
Sanity Claws
(22,408 posts)Only thing moving is the area around his mouth.
I think that is why he looks so unemotional, cold to me.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Sanity Claws
(22,408 posts)He needs fangs in order to make those sharp piercings in his victims' throats.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)deurbano
(2,985 posts)Sanity Claws
(22,408 posts)You are probably right about the fillers.
His wife is very plastic looking. He might as well be too.
SergeStorms
(20,533 posts)using Daddy-in-law's ass fat. At least there's no shortage of that in the world! There's enough ass fat there to keep Malaria, White House Barbie, and JarJar's skin as smooth as silk for three lifetimes.
Yuck.....now I'm going to have nightmares about Trump's ass all night.
NBachers
(19,422 posts)DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)... with other inmates, who will be even less impressed!
sprinkleeninow
(22,327 posts)SergeStorms
(20,533 posts)what sort of prison tattoos these clowns get while incarcerated. Trump and his clan can count on protection from the white supremacist faction in prison, so they have that going for them.
marble falls
(71,855 posts)I learned one good thing about Jared. He blushed all during those two minutes or so. That shows he at least is capable of feeling shame and felling foolish.
I'm going to look up the entire segment.
underpants
(196,382 posts)marble falls
(71,855 posts)underpants
(196,382 posts)That 2 1/2 minutes in the OP was brutal
LiberalLovinLug
(14,678 posts)Grammy23
(6,121 posts)And to think that was on Fox!? It was pretty clear from what he said, he was just reciting a laundry list of the issues. Probably scribbled a few notes on a napkin and thought that would make him sound like he had a clue. If anyone had asked him to expound on any of the issues, wed have probably been treated to an entree of word salad.
The guy may be educated in that he is a so-called real estate expert but his track record for that undermines his credentials in that field. tRump always seems to be impressed by a persons pedigree so he most likely thinks Jared is a freaking genius. The truth is he is in way over his head and hasnt bothered to study up on the subject either. Kind of like his famous father in law.
Fritz Walter
(4,370 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(10,411 posts)They get off on seeing people in our government being humiliated. Putin and the family von trump are destroying us now and pouring us for decades to come with his judicial appointments.
It's not schadenfraude. There is no time for that. This is the end of the great experiment.
democrank
(12,585 posts)What a disgrace.
mehrrh
(233 posts)Well, embarrassment and humiliation for Jared and the Trumps come from around the world.
dlk
(13,243 posts)Relevant experience and professionalism actually do matter.
syringis
(5,101 posts)THAT ???!!!!
So this is the clown pretending to be the "negotiator" in the ME ?
He doesn't have the slightest idea of what the ME problem is.
He served an indigestible word salad scrambling many issues ! Some of these issues only tangentially related to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
The conflict has its roots deep in time and in the history of the ME. A long time before the WWII and the creation of Israel.
This family of dingbats really scares me. Their ignorance and their simplistic view will put the world to fire and sword !
Among million of sperm, the winner had to be this guy...
benld74
(10,284 posts)Crap floats too nt
sprinkleeninow
(22,327 posts)Orange Free State
(611 posts)Comedy act billed as The Worlds Foremost Authority? Well, here he is in a clip from the old Mike Douglas Show. He could talk for ten minutes and say not one thing of substance. It was funny then. Not now, when Kushner does it...
https://m.
underpants
(196,382 posts)Posting to show the whole thing and so I can find your post later
world wide wally
(21,836 posts)Doodley
(11,880 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,570 posts)Response to EricMaundry (Original post)
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DemocratSinceBirth
(101,842 posts)-Unlike Jared and Donald Haim Saban is a self made billionaire.
- Unlike Jared and Donald he is a genuine philanthropist and do gooder:
http://www.sabancommunityclinic.org/
UTUSN
(77,701 posts)trueblue2007
(19,236 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)The base certainly wont care. 😓
Irish_Dem
(81,124 posts)iluvtennis
(21,496 posts)Kimber432
(74 posts)Then why aren't our troops home yet? Duh...
zentrum
(9,870 posts)Saban insulted the "Orthodox Jews" too. It's his styleone of derisive humor and Kushy sent some back. He seemed to roll with it.
All Saban said in the last analysis is that he doesn't think plan will work. Is that the "humiliation of a lifetime"?
I'm just not seeing it.
JI7
(93,561 posts)RainCaster
(13,684 posts)He just doesn't understand the depths of his stupidity. This is definitely a view of "Idiocracy".
weydowner
(100 posts)If he gets this sort of reaction from Jews, I can't wait for the Palestinian reaction.
What is it with these young men - I dislike them even before they open their mouths, and my prejudices are inevitably confirmed a thousand-fold afterwards. Like most white supremacists, they seem to be all pig-ignorant.
Even if their actions are 100% benign, most women or people of a different hue should rise up in fury that such crassness is rewarded.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)amuse bouche
(3,672 posts)is an incompetent clown?
IronLionZion
(51,205 posts)Those people will see this and not know what's wrong with it.