The grandson of President John F. Kennedy this week savaged his presidential-candidate cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a collection of mocking, meant-to-be-funny movies that have been, inarguably, uncharacteristically un-Kennedyesque, escalating a civil struggle inside America’s most storied political dynasty.
In a collection of Instagram posts, the grandson, Jack Schlossberg, 31, variously known as Mr. Kennedy, 70, a “prick,” prompt he was utilizing steroids, mentioned he was “mendacity to us” and portrayed him as a Russian stooge and a stalking horse for Donald J. Trump.
However what viewers could also be extra struck by, and even insulted by, are the closely accented caricatures the younger scion used to dramatize his factors.
He impersonates a Massachusetts fan of the Kennedys named Jimmy, sounding like Ben Affleck in a Dunkin’ Donuts industrial.
“, I’m a fan of his father,” Mr. Schlossberg says, as Jimmy. “And you realize his uncle? Relaxation in peace, I bear in mind the place I used to be the day he was killed, I imply it was a tragic day, the whole nation wept. However pay attention, that man, he’s a prick. The brand new man, the younger man, he’s a friggin prick.”
He channels a southerner named Wade who raises horses and says, “You possibly can at all times inform when a horse is being pumped stuffed with testosterone — steroids doesn’t make the horse assume any higher.” And he conjures an Italian-American Lengthy Islander named Anthony (or “Ant’ny”) who worries that Mr. Kennedy would slash the navy at a time when China, Russia, “everybody’s on our ass.”
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