Who Is Jack Schlossberg? All About JFK's Only Grandson

In the late spring of 2024, a new character began to capture the internet's attention. Viral videos narrated by a tall, dark-haired surfer were suddenly everywhere. They touched on everything from politics to pasta, the only connecting thread being their unseriousness. He moonwalked in a Walmart, recited poetry from a skateboard, and mimed a tickle fight with Vice Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance. So imagine the internet's surprise when it was revealed that Schlossberg is a Kennedy—and late president John F. Kennedy's only grandson at that.

Though you may not know it from his laid-back internet persona, Schlossberg had a very Kennedy upbringing. He interned in the Senate in high school, earned a bachelor's degree from Yale, and graduated with both law and business degrees from Harvard. He's always mingled with the political elite—he introduced then-President Barack Obama at the 2013 Medal of Freedom Award Dinner and delivered an address at the 2020 democratic national convention. He's involved in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, often presenting their Profile in Courage award.

More recently, Schlossberg has taken up journalism. Besides making his 3.6 million TikTok followers laugh, he writes for Vogue. Here's everything we know about Jack Schlossberg.

He's JFK's grandson.

Schlossberg is the third child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg. Caroline is the first child of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. (Not to be confused with the late Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy, wife of Caroline's brother John Kennedy.) He is also cousin to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, son of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., JFK's brother.

Though he was born 30 years after his grandfather JFK's death, Schlossberg has grown up in the shadow of his legacy. Like his grandfather, Schlossberg attended Harvard, where he favored restaurants on JFK Street.

Schlossberg is often said to look like his late uncle, John F. Kennedy Junior. But he's also a dead ringer for his father, Edwin Schlossberg.

He's politically involved.

As a teenager, Schlossberg worked as a page for then-senator John Kerry and served as a senate intern during his senior year of high school. After college, he moved to Japan, where his mother served as a U.S. ambassador, before returning to New England for law school and business school at Harvard.

In 2020, he spoke out against then-Vice President Mike Pence, who invoked JFK's legacy in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. Pence urged democratic senators to defend Trump in his impeachment trial, and Schlossberg responded with a post on X that read, "I would argue instead that today, as in 1865, political courage might require a Republican Senator to risk his or her own political future by breaking lockstep from the President and agree to hear from witnesses, review the evidence, and put the national interest above their own."

Later that year, he appeared alongside his mother at the democratic national convention.

He has three ivy league degrees.

Schlossberg graduated from Yale University in 2015 with an undergraduate degree in Japanese history, People reports. Two years later he enrolled in Harvard, where his grandfather had studied some 75 years earlier, earning several buildings and a street named in his honor. Schlossberg graduated from the law and business schools in 2022 after completing a joint program for an M.B.A. and J.D.

He's involved with the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

In June 2024, Schlossberg presented the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award to Kentucky Secretary of State Michael G. Adams.

He's critical of RFK Jr.

A few months after RFK Jr. announced his bid for the 2024 presidential election in the spring of 2023, Schlossberg posted a video to his Instagram denouncing his cousin's campaign and praising the Biden administration's accomplishments.

"Biden passed the largest investment in infrastructure since the new deal, and the largest investment in clean energy ever…he ended our longest war, he ended the COVID pandemic, and he ended Donald Trump," Schlossberg says. "These are the issues that matter. If my cousin, Bobby Kennedy Junior cared about any of them, he would support Joe Biden too. Instead, he’s trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories, and conflict for personal gain and fame. I’ve listened to him. I know him. I have no idea why anyone would think he should be president. What I do know is his candidacy is an embarrassment."

On May 3, 2024, he doubled down, posting a series of videos from the point of view of several seemingly fictional characters. He adopted a different accent and origin story in each video, warning against RFK's ties to Trump, his proposed cuts to the military budget, and his environmental policies. In one such video, he introduces himself as Anthony from Long Island, and says "Who doesn’t like the Kennedys? But this guy says he wants to cut the military budget in half. We got China, we got Russia, everybody’s on our ass. You don’t got my vote kid. “

He's amassed a following online.

In the spring of 2024, Schlossberg began posting on Instagram more regularly. In mid-May, he created a TikTok account and quickly amassed over 300,000 followers.

Besides his character videos, he posted a series of other stunts, moonwalking in Walmart, reciting poetry while skateboarding, and posing shirtless by the water. In one video he adopts one of these characters to talk to himself. "Schlosberg, Schlosberg! What's up man. Dude you're playing with fire bro. You sure you want to do this?"

His videos have drawn praise from hundreds of commenters, and criticism from others, like The New York Times. While the videos may not have garnered so much attention coming from another creator, they're distinctive coming from a Kennedy. Icons of the American aristocracy, the Kennedy family is known for being poised, private, and professional. Schlossberg's presence shirks that legacy, approaching politics with a studied unseriousness and welcoming controversy.

He contributes to Vogue.

In July of 2024, Vogue announces Schlosberg as their new political correspondent. He celebrated on Instagram, saying "Thrilled to be a @voguemagazine contributor !! I’ll be talking about current events regularly :)"

Since then, he's covered the presidential debate, a recent Supreme Court ruling, the Republican National Convention, and more.

Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Jack Schlossberg is involved with the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Schlossberg is a member of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award committee, which falls under the jurisdiction of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization.

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