WH staff passed around Onion article parodying Kushner: report

White House staffers were reportedly tickled by an article from the parody news site The Onion about Jared Kushner “quietly transfer[ing] ‘solve the Middle East crisis’ to next week’s to-do list.”

According to Politico, the article made the rounds among a handful of people inside and outside the White House, although President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor didn’t see the piece himself.

{mosads}The article mockingly reported that Kushner admitted “there was simply too much on his plate right now to bring stability to the fractious region by end of day Friday,” leading him to move “the task ‘solve Middle East crisis’ to his to-do list for next week.” 

The piece read:

“Ushering in lasting peace across the Mideast is definitely still a big priority for me, but given everything else I’ve got going on right now, I’m just going to need to bump it to next week when I have a little more time on my hands,” Kushner reportedly said as he crossed out the task on his pocket day planner and rewrote it on the following page, acknowledging that he was just “too swamped” at the moment with policy reports and real estate development meetings to resolve the numerous wars, land disputes, and centuries-old ethnic and religious tensions that have long raged among the 350 million residents of the geopolitical hotspot.”

Shortly after winning the election, Trump said he would make Kushner a leading force in negotiating peace in the Middle East.

In November, Trump said in an interview that he was considering using Kushner to help broker a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinians. 

Kushner is an Orthodox Jew, whose wife Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism before they were married. The Kushner family also has close ties to the Israeli government and pro-Israel groups.