In the height of the digital age, Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson, is carving an unconventional path as a political advocate and activist.

While the <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/joe-keery-girfriend-wife-dating-history-maika-monroe-chase-sui-wonders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet</a> and the generally public has had reactions ranging from shocked to puzzled regarding Jack Schlossberg's most recent string of viral Instagram and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/viral-tiktok-beauty-trends-summer-2024-tried-and-tested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> posts, the 31-year-old has made it clear there's a strong political message running through everything he does.&nbsp;
In a recent&mdash;and rare&mdash;interview with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a61098000/jack-schlossberg-jfk-interview-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Town &amp; Country Magazine</a>,&nbsp;the social media star-political advocate-Harvard Law graduate revealed several of his motivations behind his admittedly bizarre online presence. While his TikToks and Instagram reels range from videos of a shoeless Schlossberg trying to crack open a coconut on the side of the road to rambling clips detailing a particular disdain for chicken parmesan to a series of skits revolving around a rotating cast of politically charged, strongly-accented original characters, the 31-year-old manages to make a point, subtle as it is, through his own sense of comedy and his family connections. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t sing and I can&rsquo;t dance, but I can do accents and I&rsquo;ve always been able to,&rdquo; he told <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a61098000/jack-schlossberg-jfk-interview-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Town &amp; Country</a>. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just trying to use the tools at my disposal to get out a message that I think is super-serious and important, and that is that a vote for Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a vote for Donald Trump.&rdquo;

Many of Schlossberg's skits center around voting issues that have become critical talking points in the 2024 presidential election, and through these satirical videos&mdash;many of which target his cousin, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as a subject of disdain&mdash;the young political advocate has found a foothold among young voters within the Millenial and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/practical-magic-outfits-90s-style-sequel-nicole-kidman-sandra-bullock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gen Z</a> demographic. While his videos are a constant source of confusion for older generations not accustomed to the dry, surrealist sense of <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/olivia-isabella-cohen-interview-comedy-gen-z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">humor</a> that young people on the Internet often take on, the people that get it, get it.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s up to all of us to try to do what we can,&rdquo; Schlossberg continued in the same interview. &ldquo;And this year, for me, that meant making these videos online. I&rsquo;m trying to do whatever I can to help President Biden win.&rdquo; He also told Town &amp; Country that people have been reaching out and telling him "that I helped them see something they didn&rsquo;t necessarily see before. If I get one person to think that, that&rsquo;s a huge success, and I think there&rsquo;s a lot more than one person.&rdquo;
 Schlossberg emphasized his purpose in his online presence in the same interview with <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a61098000/jack-schlossberg-jfk-interview-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Town &amp; Country</a>, and said: &ldquo;If you can get that message out there, in whatever way works, it doesn&rsquo;t make it any less serious, or any less strategic, to get more people to watch it. And so that&rsquo;s really all I&rsquo;ve been trying to do. If I wanted to blow myself up, I could be doing a lot more, and I don&rsquo;t want to do that. And I wish none of this was happening. And I wish that Bobby wasn&rsquo;t running and people weren&rsquo;t being confused by him and led to believe that there was some other answer, or that the Democratic Party wasn&rsquo;t behind them, or that Joe Biden hasn&rsquo;t been a fantastic president.&rdquo;
Many of his older family members have expressed concern for Schlossberg, wondering if he's damaging his reputation as part of the illustrious <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/carolyn-bessette-kennedy-yohji-yamamoto-dress-auction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kennedy</a> family&mdash;a clan that has practically become American royalty&mdash;but in Schlossberg, others see hints of the kind of political courage and domineering advocacy that JFK and John Jr. practiced before him.&nbsp;
&ldquo;President John F. Kennedy is my grandfather,&rdquo; said Schlossberg in a more serious-toned video posted to his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jackuno/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>. &ldquo;And his legacy is important. It&rsquo;s about a lot more than Camelot and conspiracy theories. It&rsquo;s about public service and courage.
For Schlossberg, continuing the Kennedy legacy as a younger member of the family means reaching out and engaging with the voting-age <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/90s-outfits-celebrity-fashion-comeback" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Millenials</a> and Gen-Z Americans who spent hours a day online, even if it means piquing their interest through bizarre TikToks and comedy-heavy skits.&nbsp;

Jack Schlossberg in 2019. Getty Images.

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