Jack Schlossberg Is Taking a Break from Shitposting to Run for Congress

To fit in on Capitol Hill, it seems that some of the biggest prerequisites are habitually tweaking out on social media, having a disgusting amount of wealth, or both. So who else but the left’s most famous, richest, nepo baby—and esteemed doomscroller-slash-troll—would announce he’s running for Congress in 2026?

Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy (and consequently chaotic cousin of RFK Jr.), launched his bid for New York’s 12th Congressional District on Wednesday, breaking from his usual shitposts to make his official debut in politics. “It’s a constitutional crisis with one dangerous man in control of all three branches of government. He’s stripping citizens of their civil rights and silencing his critics,” he said in his campaign video, emphasizing that our country was at a “turning point.”

 

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New York’s 12th Congressional District is home to the United Nations, Empire State Building, Times Square, and Central Park, stretching from Union Square through the Upper West and Upper East Sides. The race for the seat is already looking packed, with Schlossberg running against five other Democratic candidates, including Assemblymen Micah Lasher and Alex Bores. Last week, rumors swirled that the very disgraced Andrew Cuomo was also eyeing the spot (though his team later denied the report).

If elected, Schlossberg would be the only good Kennedy currently serving in government, bar none. Schlossberg’s cousin, RFK Jr., the Health and Human Services Secretary whose brain was eaten by a worm, has baselessly linked Tylenol, autism, and pregnancy; blamed antidepressants for school shootings; and launched a very unnecessary investigation into the abortion pill mifepristone. His daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, who married his eldest son in 2018, also took a step into disgrace when she ran RFK Jr.’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2024. She then took a top CIA job in the Trump administration in February.

Schlossberg’s announcement comes after 78-year-old Jerrold Nadler announced his retirement in September, after having served for more than three decades in office. (We’ll take what we can get; of the 30 Democratic dinosaurs we have in office, Nadler’s just one of the few who finally decided he’d step aside in 2026.) Days after Nadler’s announcement, Schlossberg wrote on social media, “Hey guys ? have formed an exploratory committee.”

His campaign launch also comes hot on the heels of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win last week, proving that the voters are yearning for some younger faces in our gerontocracy. Schlossberg backed Mamdani and once made a video saying, “I don’t give a fuck” about crossing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former cousin, who was once married to Kerry Kennedy, John F. Kennedy’s niece.

News: Jack Schlossberg is announcing his campaign for NY-12 tomorrow — and just set the record for millennial exclamation points in a personal fundraising email he just sent pic.twitter.com/VgxdhZ36xU

— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) November 12, 2025

And insofar as political trolling goes, Schlossberg is a true master. He’s amassed more than 1.7 million followers across Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, and the New York Times has called him a “social media provocateur.” Sometimes his satire gets so absurd that it’s kind of unclear what he actually means; for example, in February, he perplexed everyone when he abruptly deleted all his social media accounts, saying, “I’m sorry to everyone I hurt. I was wrong. I’m deleting all my social media. Forever.” He returned less than two weeks later to rail against Elon Musk’s decision to temporarily close the John F. Kennedy museum, but never explained the hiatus.

When it comes to his cousin, however, Schlossberg has never been one to mince words. During RFK’s hearing in January, Schlossberg tweeted that he was a “liar,” a “guru shaman figure,” and “someone who cannot tell the truth.” In April, he posted a mock-encouragement video message to RFK, telling his cousin to take the summer off and saying, “You’re going to get us the cause of autism by September.” During calls for RFK to resign in September, he tweeted: “RFK LOSER IS A THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH and AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP.”

 

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“In this toxic polluted media environment we are in—I breathe that air,” he told CNN. Sounds bad, but if there’s any certainty in life, it’s death, taxes, and a Kennedy in government… and the one we currently have sucks.

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