Actually, he tweets nothing.
President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, plays a key role in the administration and is featured in a pair of big news headlines just today – his leading a special task force featuring tech industry luminaries, and his pending testimony before a Senate committee investigating Russian meddling in November’s election.
(UPDATE: No, Kushner did not just delete all his tweets.)
Kushner’s father-in-law would be tweeting up a storm on such a busy day.
Kushner tweets nothing, as seen in the screen capture above, just as he has done – not done? — every single day since nonetheless establishing a Twitter account in April 2009.
Trump, famous perhaps for nothing more — besides reality TV and being elected president — joined Twitter a month before his son-in-law, and as of just past lunchtime today, had tweeted 34,700 times.
Current president: about a dozen tweets per day, on average, for eight years.
Presidential son-in-law: zero tweets per day over the same eight years.
(By way of comparison, I joined Twitter 7 months before Trump, consider myself a heavy user, and have tweeted 12,900 times, or roughly a third as often as the president.)
Kushner is by no means the only famous person to open a Twitter account and never tweet. Some see it as gobbling up CompanySucks domain names before anyone else has the chance.
At least Kushner does follow his father-in-law.
(UPDATE: I shouldn’t have broken the never-say-never rule, as it’s been noted elsewhere that Kushner tweeted a few times in 2014 and maybe 2011, as well, according to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)
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