January 10, 2021 by Tosh Berman

 

January 10, 2021

It must be challenging to be Jared Kushner, to have money, but have nothing else. Today is his birthday, and he turned 40-years old. When I researched a subject matter, I like to look at their images when they were young, especially if they're photos from their childhood. Oddly enough, it's impossible for me to find a picture of him as a ten-year-old or younger. And nothing of him as a teenager. His father, a felon and recently pardoned by Trump is the same age as me. Which I found shocking. In that sense, if I had a son, he could be the same age as Jared. Selfishly, I chose not to have any children, in case I produced a monster like Jared Kushner.

On January 10, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and Jared did the same when he got married into the Trump family. His father, Charles, was a strong figure in the Kushner family. He often had temper tandems and cruelty against his enemies, including a family member, married to Charles's sister.  He set him up by hiring a prostitute and then secretly recorded their sex sessions and sent them to his own sister. He was sent to prison for two years and released on my birthday, August 25, 2006. 

Jared and his wife Ivanka have a sizable art collection, including Alex Israel, Dan Colen, Nate Lowman, Alex Da Corte, and David Outrowski.  Richard Prince was alarmed that they own a work by him and told the media it was 'fake art.' Ivanka did a photoshoot for her Instagram page, showing Christopher Wool's painting behind an Ivanka Trump brand Mara Bag. That image was deleted from her account. Already, the embarrassment of being associated with the Kushners was starting when Trump became President in 2016. Still, it's almost impossible to read Jared's face. He is known to be extremely polite and never seems to lose his temper. He was taught to dance around his father's anger, which made him perfect in Donald James Trump's world. 

Jared shares a birthday with Frank Sinatra, Jr.  Frank Jr. was kidnapped when he was 19-years old. Dad paid the ransom, and all the negotiation was done through pay telephones. Frank Jr was concerned that he wouldn't have enough dimes for the phone calls, so to the very day of his death, he always carried 10 dimes in his pocket and was buried with 10 dimes in his pocket.  Being named and the son of Frank Sinatra opened doors for him. Still, he was quoted as saying, ""a famous father means that in order to prove yourself, you have to work three times harder than the guy off the street." Jared, as far as I know, never talked about his father in such a manner. 

On his birthday today, it must be a gloomy day for him. To turn 40, and knowing that your reputation is trashed, as well as your wife's career thrown in the trash can as well. The one thing I'm sure he's aware of is that his father's career was destroyed, but he came from the shit landscape into the air of New York Property.  Power rarely loses power, but one can be isolated into the vacant world of a building or home that serves no purpose but a reflection of an empty soul drowning in infinite images of failure. In all sincerity, I acknowledge Jared's birthday today as one of a celebration of a person who never had a soul. Nor, as far as I can see, a picture from his childhood. 

-Tosh Berman.