Former senior White House advisor Jared Kushner said in an interview with Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell that he’s optimistic about his chances of living forever.
Kushner, 41, spoke to Grenell on the YouTube channel LiveSigning on Thursday while promoting his book his widely panned book: ‘Breaking History: A White House Memoir.’
The New York Times review compared the book to ‘watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.’
When asked about how he fills his days since his father-in-law lost his reelection campaign in 2020, Kushner said that he spends most of his time with his wife Ivanka and their three children.
However, he added: ‘From the last year, the one thing I’ve tried to put a priority on since I left the White House was, you know, getting some exercise in.’
Kushner continued: ‘I think that there is a good probability that my generation is, hopefully with the advances in science, either the first generation to live forever, or the last generation that’s going to die.’
He concluded: ‘So, we need to keep ourselves in pretty good shape.’
Kushner made his comments in an interview with former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell
Grenell smiled politely as Kushner made his claims and said subsequently that he has embraced meditation as a means to ‘center’ himself.
According to Mediaite, as of Thursday evening, just 500 people had watched Kushner’s nearly hour long interview.
Speaking to the Daily Beast, a ‘source’ close to Kushner told the website that his remarks were ‘like a tongue-in-cheek joke to make the larger point that he wants to work out and be in good shape because people are living longer lives.’
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Keefe tweeted about Kushner’s claims saying: ‘Cool Sci-Fi dystopia: You get to live forever but in a world in which Jared Kushner also lives forever and never goes away.’
In promoting his book, Kushner has made appearances on Fox News and on Megyn Kelly’s Sirius XM show. Combined, Kushner and his wife are thought to have a net worth of around $1.1 billion.
Kushner’s new memoir has been widely panned by reviewers
During his appearance on conservative host Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, Kushner took aim at Chrissy Teigen over comments the model has made about Ivanka
During his appearance on conservative host Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, Kushner took aim at Chrissy Teigen over comments the model has made about Ivanka.
Kushner called Teigen a ‘nasty troll’ and said she had said ‘most awful, horrible things’ about Ivanka. He went on to compliment his wife for never getting ‘into the mud’ with Teigen.
Teigen wrote on Twitter in July 2020 that she ‘had it with anyone who EVER defends this woman or puts her as the ‘sane’ one in this family.’
The wife of John Legend also took aim at Ivanka after the then-president’s daughter suggested that families organize camping adventures in their living rooms during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Teigen tweeted: ‘After we quote pack unquote sandwiches can we please have Covid tests.’
Kushner appeared to dodge questions about the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago during his appearance on Fox News this week
Kushner told Fox & Friends: ‘I wanted people to really understand what it was like to be living through that when you know you’ve done nothing wrong, you’re there trying to get good things done’
While on Fox News, Kushner did not directly answer questions regarding the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago earlier this month.
Kushner told the network: ‘That’s again why I wrote this book.’
He added: ‘I wanted people to really understand what it was like to be living through that when you know you’ve done nothing wrong, you’re there trying to get good things done.’
As one of the key figures behind Trump’s unlikely rise to power in 2016, Kushner may have been better suited to supporting fringe candidate in that year’s presidential election, transhumanist Zoltan Istvan.
Istvan ran on a platform of ‘overcoming human death and aging within 15–20 years.’
Further distancing himself from his father-in-law, in 2017 the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos revealed that the 45th president was cynical about the advantages of exercise.
The piece read: ‘Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.’