Following his return to the White House, 47th United States President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders as well as major law changes. Among the many orders was a plan to release classified documents regarding the 1963 assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy.
JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg has addressed this order of declassification, accusing Trump of using his grandfather’s death as a “political prop.”
Trump ordered the declassification
On Thursday 23 January, the returning president ordered officials to prepare the declassification of documents related to three US high-profile assassinations.
Trump spoke about it to the crowd at his inauguration on Monday, claiming he aims to do it for transparency.
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He wants to make them public
“As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents,” Trump said at his inauguration.
He took this action only three days later on Thursday when he signed the declassification orders.
The files are to be released in 15 days
“And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,” he added.
According to the BBC, the classified files will be made public in 15 days.
Trump spoke to reporters
The president himself survived an assassination attempt in July 2024 which took place in Pennsylvania.
He spoke to reporters about the declassification of documents related to the three assassinations as he was signing the executive order, saying, “That’s a big one, huh?”
He said he’d reveal everything
“A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed,” added Trump.
This isn’t a surprising order as he has previously discussed wanting to do this on Joe Rogan’s podcast last year.
Trump had promised RFK the reveal
Trump had made JFK’s nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr, his presumptive nominee for the position of United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
He had also promised RFK that he would reveal classified information regarding JFK’s assassination. This was during Trump’s election campaign.
JFK’s son detested the move
The late president’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, now addresses the move to declassify information about his grandfather’s assassination.
He wrote a post on X/Twitter saying, “JFK conspiracy theories – The truth is a lot sadder than the myth – a tragedy that didn’t need to happen.”
He accused Trump of using JFK as a prop
“Not part of an inevitable grand scheme. Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back. There’s nothing heroic about it,” wrote the 32-year-old political correspondent.
Schlossberg was then asked by a social media user if he had read the classified files, to which he responded, “I know everything d***.”
Schlossberg was agitated by users
Another user wrote to Schlossberg, “JFK would absolutely be ashamed of what his kin have become.”
“I’d love to speak to JFK from beyond the grave just let me know how best to reach him and then I’ll start behaving with some class per his instructions in the meantime there is traffic I’m gonna go play in it come you first,” was Schlossberg’s response.
It’s unclear what the documents will reveal
Allegedly, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK with a bullet to the head in Dallas, Texas in November 1963. But since Oswald was shot two days after, many conspiracy theories still float around as to whether he was actually the perpetrator.
Although Trump has already “partially” read them, it’s still currently unclear what the classified documents will reveal.