BREAKING: JFK’s Grandson Jack Schlossberg Eviscerates RFK Jr. as Trump’s “Collared Dog” and Accuses President of “Erasing Kennedy Legacy”

By Marcus Hale, Political Correspondent New York, NY – November 18, 2025

Jack Schlossberg, the 32-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy and the only member of his generation now running for federal office, unleashed a blistering, no-holds-barred takedown of both Donald Trump and his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a weekend interview that has set Democratic circles ablaze and sent shockwaves through the Kennedy clan.

Appearing on MS Now’s Weekend with Alicia Menendez, Schlossberg—fresh off his October announcement that he is challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th Congressional District—was asked point-blank about Trump’s systematic efforts to, in Menendez’s words, “dismantle your family’s legacy.”

The list she read was long and deliberate:

• Declassification of previously withheld JFK assassination records (many redacted for decades),
• The 2025 demolition and redesign of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden during East Wing renovations,
• Trump’s directive to repaint Air Force One in “MAGA red, white, and gold” instead of the iconic “Jackie blue” scheme,
• Plans to rebrand the Kennedy Center with corporate and conservative sponsorships,
• And the controversial 2024 paving-over of the White House Rose Garden, which Jacqueline Kennedy had personally restored in 1962 with Mellon family funding.

Schlossberg did not flinch.

“Let me be crystal clear,” he began, voice steady but laced with fury. “Donald Trump is not preserving history—he’s vandalizing it. He’s a man so insecure, so obsessed with erasing anyone who came before him, that he’s literally bulldozing my grandmother’s gardens because her taste offends his gaudy aesthetic. Air Force One? Jackie designed that plane to project grace and strength. Trump wants it to look like one of his failed casinos. This isn’t policy. This is petty, pathetic revenge against a family that represents everything he can never be.”

Then he turned to his cousin.

“And let’s talk about the real tragedy here: RFK Jr. My uncle Bobby fought for justice, for science, for the little guy. He would be horrified—horrified—to see his own son groveling at Mar-a-Lago, parroting anti-vaccine conspiracies, and serving as Donald Trump’s collared dog. Yes, I said collared dog. Because that’s what you become when you trade your family’s legacy for a cabinet title and a pat on the head from a man who mocks the disabled, brags about assault, and now literally tears up rose bushes because a woman he never met had better taste than him.”

The studio audience gasped. Menendez, visibly stunned, simply let the moment breathe.

Schlossberg continued:

“Bobby Jr. isn’t carrying the torch—he’s pissing on it. My grandfather stared down the Soviets. My great-uncle Teddy fought for healthcare for every American. And now the Kennedy name is being used to peddle brain worms and bleach drinks to desperate people. It’s disgusting. It’s betrayal. And every time RFK Jr. stands next to Trump while Trump desecrates my grandmother’s gardens, he proves exactly whose side he’s on.”

The clip exploded online within minutes. By Monday morning, #CollaredDog was the top-trending topic in the United States, with over 2.8 million posts. Progressive influencers hailed Schlossberg as the “Kennedy we’ve been waiting for,” while MAGA accounts flooded his mentions with venom, photoshopping dog collars onto JFK portraits and accusing him of “elite coastal arrogance.”

RFK Jr., now Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, responded late Sunday on X:

“Jack is a sweet kid who’s never worked a day outside Nantucket. My father and uncle would be ashamed of a Kennedy attacking family instead of fighting the real enemies: Big Pharma, the deep state, and the corporate media that props up Schlossberg’s campaign.”

The Trump White House, through deputy press secretary Harrison Fields, dismissed the remarks as “the dying gasp of a spoiled dynasty that hasn’t been relevant since Chappaquiddick.”

Yet the political impact is undeniable. Schlossberg’s campaign, once viewed as a long-shot vanity bid against 32-year incumbent Nadler, surged in early polling: a SurveyUSA snap poll released Monday showed him trailing the congressman by only 9 points in the June 2026 primary—inside the margin where progressive energy and viral moments can win.

Donors took notice. Three super PACs aligned with the Kennedy-Shriver wing of the family transferred a combined $4.7 million into Schlossberg’s war chest overnight, with one text message from a major donor reading simply: “You just said what the rest of us have been thinking for two years.”

Inside the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, the rift is now irreversible. Sources close to the family say Caroline Kennedy, Jack’s mother and former ambassador to Japan, privately applauded her son’s candor, while other cousins remain silent, terrified of alienating either the Trump White House or the Democratic base.

For Jack Schlossberg—Harvard grad, Vogue contributor, and now the sharpest tongue in a family once defined by them—the interview was more than a viral moment. It was a declaration of war: against Trump’s aesthetic and authoritarian vandalism, against his cousin’s apostasy, and for a Kennedy legacy he believes has been hijacked.

As he signed off with Menendez, Schlossberg left one final line that is now plastered on T-shirts from Fire Island to the Hamptons:

“My grandfather said we choose to do hard things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Erasing gardens is easy. Defending democracy? That’s hard. And I’m just getting started.”

Whether Schlossberg wins NY-12 or not, one thing is certain: the Kennedy civil war is now public, raw, and very, very personal.

And America can’t look away.