Jack Schlossberg Returns to Social Media After DOGE Closes JFK's Presidential Library: 'Stealing History from the People'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jack Schlossberg.Photo:MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty

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Jack Schlossberghas returned to social media amid the temporary closure of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Schlossberg, who is the only grandson of former PresidentJohn F. KennedyandJackie Kennedy Onassis, made his return to social media afterclaiming that he was deleting social media “forever” on Feb. 6.

“STEALING HISTORY from the PEOPLE — our government is using PROPAGANDA TO CHANGE THE PAST — Today DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] SHUT DOWN the JFK LIBRARY — welcomes thousands of students ever year to learn about US HISTORY — the DIRECTOR OF PRES. LIBRARIES (from White House / DOGE) instructed the JFKLIBRARY to fire probationary staff effective immediately and until further notice,” Schlossberg wrote in the caption.

In afollow-up video, Schlossberg said he believed the shutdown “has nothing to do with government efficiency.”

“The workers who were fired today actually bring in revenue for the government. It’s really about stealing the past and about generating propaganda so that people don’t know what’s really happening,” he said.

A sign posted on the door of the library said “Due to an Executive Order concerning a ‘reduction in force (RIF),’ the JFK Library and Museum will be closed to the public until further notice,” per CBS Boston.

“From my understanding, leadership at the John F. Kennedy Library today received a communication from the leadership at the National Archives that oversees the library that was effectuating an order from the administration to terminate all as they call it probationary employees which are folks that essentially have been hired there within the past year,“Joe Kennedy IIItoldCBS Boston.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty

The JFK Library Foundation shared in a statement to PEOPLE that “the sudden dismissal of federal employees at the JFK Library forced the museum to close today.”

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The library is set to open its doors again on Wednesday, Feb. 19. PEOPLE has reached out to National Archives and Records Administration for comment.

source: people.com