Mark Guiducci, a prominent figure in Democratic politics, insists his high-concept, inflammatory comments have a strategy, citing his law, business, and campaign experience.
, most memorably a “MAHA Man” Halloween costume targeted at his cousin, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a one-sided feud with Joe Rogan.
Mark Guiducci, are in fact a high-concept gambit: He insists that there is an actual strategy behind posting such inflammatory comments like, “True or false: Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O.” To Schlossberg, the Democrats’ recent woes have to do with their traditional views of polite behavior, while the other side uses “vulgarity…and insanity as a political weapon. ” Schlossberg points to his law and business degrees, as well as campaign work and a stint in the State Department, as evidence that there is substance to the style.
“I know how legislation and government works,” he says, with all the confidence of a Kennedy. “That’s enough if it were 2009. Now you need to do that and run basically a mini production company. ”on Thursday detailing apparent chaos inside Schlossberg’s campaign: the candidate’s disappearances for long stretches; his penchant for Hudson River paddleboarding; and, in one instance, his need to take a nap.
That State Department gig, a department spokesperson told the paper, as a staff assistant under family friend Secretary John F. Kerry, lasted less than four months. Schlossberg’s “surreal” Zoom interview style reportedly left one prospective campaign staffer so uncomfortable that she declined the job.
“This did not happen, and this person seems to now work with an opponent. ” Phillips said that what anonymous sources have described as chaos, “we call…campaigning in New York.
” She attributed the candidate’s paddleboarding to a widely known, longstanding back injury, and said that “if an anonymous source thought he was napping at any point, they should remind themselves” that Schlossberg was campaigning during a “a deeply, deeply personal tragedy,” referring to the December death of his sister, Tatiana Schlossberg.story. On Thursday, he posted a photo of himself napping, writing, “Needed a quick nap !! Even though I just woke up. ”I have.
And I’ll tell you, it vibrates. That thing vibrates. There is so much energy coming out of it. It’s like, it glows.
And I—that sounds, like, woo-woo, but it’s true. There’s a heavy vibe coming out of that, that room. Very happy you’re here. We were interested in talking to you today because you’re running for Congress in Manhattan at a time when a lot of people would say the Democrats, they don’t know what they’re doing, they don’t know what they stand for, and that voters everywhere are hungry for a new approach to politics.
You’re also from a family which has been at or near the center of American politics for seven decades, and has been much covered in the pages of our magazine. Okay, so I’m gonna, I’m gonna get ready by putting on my hat, because you just mentioned the Democratic Party not knowing what it’s doing. This is my solution. It’s “Believe in Something Again.
” That’s our campaign slogan. #BISA. BISA Nation. Believe in something again.
I think a privilege that I have, that we all share, is a connection to our past. This is our country’s 250th birthday, and the district I’m running in, which goes from 96th to 14th Street, there are monuments to generations that built this country that believed in America. And right now, people don’t believe in anything anymore. You can’t believe what the president says.
But I’m running because I will always believe in politics, and we gotta start believing in something again, believe in ourselves again, believe in the Democratic Party again. So hats off to you. Jack, you are famously candid on social media.
While I think that’s refreshing for many, I think to others it can seem or has seemed erratic, and some posts even—First of all, when you’re posting on Instagram, you’re posting on Twitter—I still call it that—TikTok, this is a….
“The medium is the message” is a famous saying, and I know how to breathe that air, and breathing that air means shock value. It means using every tool at your disposal, your sense of humor. If I tweet something or whatever that’s, that some find offensive or, or vulgar, I’m holding up a mirror right back to them and saying, “Look what the president tweets every single day. ” He controls all three branches of government.
He uses vulgarity, and he uses insanity as a political weapon, and I don’t think that we should copy that and use it for dark purposes. But what makes your, the posts that I was referring to that maybe are ad hominem, and some of these were from before you started running. But what makes them not Trumpian? Oh, I just think it’s like breaking through.
For example, everyone always pulls up this tweet where I say, “Who’s hotter, Usha Vance or Jackie O? ” Right? And people are like, “How could you say that about your grandmother? ” And it’s like, well, of course it’s not me saying that.
It’s me trying to hold up a mirror to say, how do we treat and objectify people in politics, family members and people in politics? It’s not about their attractiveness and whether they’re hot. That sounds absurd, and you can hear how absurd it is if I say it, but not if someone else says it. If I use—Yeah, so a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
All the posts that I make, or most of them are about policy. This is a way for me to mix in. You don’t have to be just boring all the time. You can show that you can be a politician, a Democrat, that’s fun and exciting, people resonate with, and can talk about policy.
Jack, you’re running for New York 12, a district which includes many of Manhattan’s major museums and cultural institutions. Which was your favorite one growing up? What do you think the government’s role is in, in funding or supporting otherwise nonprofit arts? I think we have to do so much more.
One of the things America does best, it’s one of our most successful exports to the entire world, is arts and culture, and we need to make sure that we understand that a free society and free expression and all the constitutional rights that we have are guaranteed so that we can have a beautiful artistic society. There’s a famous quote by my grandfather that says, “There is a connection that’s easy to feel but hard to understand between progress and the arts and progress in government.
” The age of Leonardo da Vinci was the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici. The age of Elizabeth I was also the age of Shakespeare, and I want the age of Schlossberg to be the best artistic age that we’ve ever seen. I asked it about this policy called HOTMA.
It’s basically for people who are in affordable housing, how they are calculating their income, and the policy has just changed, which disadvantaged seniors, and that makes me mad, ’cause you know I love seniors. Everyone knows I love the elderly. Okay, so tech regulation is something that famously federal institutions have not done well since the day that Al Gore said he invented the internet.
And now we’re on the precipice of AI, and Congress doesn’t have either the will, the capacity, or even the vocabulary to address it, right? One of your opponents in the primary, Alex Bores, wrote and passed one of the first pieces of AI regulation for any major state, and he’s made regulating AI a central part of his campaign.
Yeah, I think, I think this is a critical issue in this election and will be for every election to come from now on. But I just have to say something about someone you just mentioned, an opponent of mine, Assemblyman Alex Bores, who, yes, he has campaigned, and claims that he wants to regulate AI, and he often invokes a bill that he passed called the RAISE Act, which didn’t pass in the way that he presented it.
It was watered down. Mr. Bores also always talks about regulating AI. He never talks about the fact that he has a super PAC. So when I hear someone talking about AI regulation who is being bankrolled by the AI industry, that reminds me of people who go in saying they’re gonna tackle fossil fuels and are actually taking money on the side from oil and gas companies.
And he’s being also attacked by some of the, by people in Silicon Valley. Because they’re not united in the way they feel about him. Well, I would just say he’s in the middle of a civil war between OpenAI and Anthropic. If we’re gonna be regulating AI, and we think it is the important issue that it is, we should have disinterested regulators, not those who have been bankrolled by one company and not another.
So, exactly. We released policies about AI more serious than any other candidate, and I’ve come up with a moniker, a framework for how I think the government should think about regulating AI, and it’s JACK: Jobs, American national security, consumer financial protection, and kids. You earned no income in 2025. That is money from a regular job, but four trust funds.
Jack, how do you relate to money? Well, I would just say that I lost a lot of relatives in my life, way too young, and they left me money, and that money is in trusts. And it allows me to, to tell you that I invested all of my money last year in things that I believe in, in my own company.
Or not all of my own money, but I put 100% of my own money to start my company called Squid Island Productions to make political content about the things and issues that I think are important. So I’ve invested my own money in myself, and I’ve also, you mentioned my earned income. That was by choice. Sure.
—do a lot of stuff, and I said no to that money because I cannot be bought. If you live in New York, you should love competition. I grew up here. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
If you can’t make it here without a super PAC, what’s gonna happen to you in Congress? Why would anyone wanna work with you? I think to whom much is given, much is required, and I embrace my responsibility as a citizen to do what I can for my country, and I think one, in one of its darkest moments.
I was born with a platform, and I was born into a family whose legacy is not celebrity as, as kind of understood now, but public service, and that’s something that I wanna continue. We need to do everything we can to make sure that corporate interests are not buying members of Congress, ’cause I think if you ask me, AI, big tech, and billionaires, they control enough members of Congress right now. I don’t think they need another one.
I played Officer Jack Hammer, New York City police officer. Very proud of that role. I delivered my line, which was fraught with tension, I think, in a way that people really haven’t seen anything like it. I’m focused right now on doing what I can to act with dignity and courage in the realm of politics.
I think President Trump, to his credit, has changed the game and showed us how politics is practiced in 2026, which is different than the past, which is why I’m running. I don’t think that the old playbook works anymore. I’ve got a law degree. I got a business degree.
I’ve worked at the State Department and on campaigns. I know how legislation and government works. That’s enough if it were 2009. Now you need to do that and run basically a mini production company.
I know how to do that. If you wanna get your message out there and bring new people into the Democratic Party, become more persuasive, you need to package your message in a way that resonates, that breaks through. If we’re not doing that, if we’re not learning from President Trump, if we don’t take a lesson from someone who literally makes content all day and governs if he has time, then it’s our own fault.
I think Jack Schlossberg gets elected to Congress, the whole world changes, and this whole thing seems like a sick joke because—Yeah, because we all believe in something. It’s BISA beats MAGA. That’s what I think. All right.
Jack, you endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral primary before any of your opponents in this race did. What grade would you give the mayor so far? I am proud to have endorsed the mayor in the primary, voted for him two times, unlike my opponents. I think the mayor has done a lot to engage people in politics.
We have some disagreements on policy, but I think overall, if elected to Congress, my job would be to help the mayor succeed. I’m the most progressive candidate on that issue in this race by a mile. I opposed the war in Iran from day one, not only on procedural grounds, but as a strategic failure, and have said that I would support the Sanders bill to stop sending bombs and bulldozers to Bibi Netanyahu.
He’s committed atrocities in Gaza, and—Absolutely. I mean, it’s not…I would say that that’s…. Again, I am a lawyer. I do not think that it is for me to say that they have been war crimes since I am a citizen in America.
I want a court to lay out the evidence and prove it, because I think when you’re talking about war crimes, you’re talking about things that serious, we need to agree and hold people accountable in a way where the process has legitimacy. So yeah, it looks like there are…I mean, there’s considerable evidence of war crimes, but I’m not equipped, none of us are, as individuals here sitting in America, to evaluate that.
I think we need to prove that in court, but it sure looks like it. But you’re asking for the job that would have you in Congress to be part of voting whether we continue to fund military aid. Yes, I…again, I’m proud to be the most progressive in this, on this issue in this race.
I have said clearly that I would not send any more offensive weapons or bulldozers to take illegal land in violation of international law on the West Bank. I have also made clear, and it’s for the same reason, I wanna protect citizens in Gaza and elsewhere, and citizens in Israel, which is why I believe, and I’ve taken flak for this, I understand why, but it’s something I feel strongly about, that the US should not pull out of the Iron Dome.
The Iron Dome is a missile defense system that cannot be used to hurt civilians. It is used to shoot missiles out of the sky that are targeting civilians. I want to protect civilians no matter where they are. And I understand people wanna say a clean break with Israel, no funding whatsoever.
What they don’t understand is that the position that I just articulated is what AOC and other of the most progressive candidates have voted for time and time again, and only recently just changed. No one is saying that we should take the technology away and stop licensing the technology to Israel. They’re just saying, they’re talking about a discounted price.
I believe we have a responsibility as Americans to defend civilians all around the world, and that is the reason why, and I don’t think that should be confused by saying that I am a major Zionist controlled by Israel, defending the Netanyahu government. Okay. Let’s go back to the mayor for a second. So what do you make of his relationship with Trump and that surreal day in the Oval Office?
Do you think that was good for New York City? Remains to be seen, I would say. But I don’t question the mayor’s political instincts. He seems to have pretty good instincts.
I would just observe. I would let him do the talking. Okay. Our president has posted images of himself as a king.
What do you think of the way he’s positioning himself in the American imagination? You think of the ballroom. We talked about the gold for a second. Something that is often said about my family is, you know, Camelot or the royal family of America, something like that.
I think that totally misunderstands our family’s legacy and actual real story. The Irish were the original oppressed people from the English Empire, and the original colony. And the Irish were oppressed by imperialism, for hundreds of years, and President Kennedy was an Irish Catholic. He was the first Catholic ever elected president.
He was a public servant. We don’t have royalty in this country. We have a political system. And so I hope people understand that our legacy is one of public service.
President Trump is obsessed with kings and royalty because he’s a strongman, and as funny or as ridiculous as some of the stuff that he posts is, and you can’t help but if you don’t laugh, you’re gonna cry. We gotta take it seriously too, because I think he’s pointing us toward what he intends, which is to stay in power for a third term.
You said it yourself: The Kennedy name is synonymous with dynastic politics, but you, do you chafe at that word,Well, I just think it doesn’t give Americans enough credit. wWe have elected leaders in this country. This primary, people aren’t gonna vote for me ’cause of my middle name. RFK Jr., and have said that you would investigate the criminality at HHS. Do you think that part of your mission in running has to do with redemption for your family?
Well, all I know is I can fight fire with fire and Kennedy with Kennedy. RFK Jr. is a menace to society. He has defunded life-saving cancer treatment. He has fired most of the scientists who work at the CDC and at HHS.
He has dismantled the vaccine panel and instituted an anti-vax crusade while being paid in the past by anti-vax groups. He is grifting off of a lie that he’s selling the American people, and all he’s really done is tell us that junk food is bad, and I already knew that. But also running for Congress is an incredibly grueling—busy doesn’t begin to describe, I’m sure, what your day-to-day looks like. Are you grieving?
Do you feel like you’ve processed that? And if so, how? I don’t think I’ll ever process it. I don’t think I’ll ever….
The world will never be the same for me, not only since she passed away, but since she was diagnosed with cancer about two years ago. She was my best friend. We could finish each other’s sentences. And no one loved me or was a bigger fan of me of anyone else than my sister.
So I miss her all the time. Every day I think about her.
But it also really does motivate me to do everything I can with every waking moment I have, because I realize it could have just as easily been me, and I have an obligation to her, not just to myself, to make the most out of my precious life and all that I’ve been given in this life to give back to others and make sure that we can fund cures for the type of cancer that took her life, and for other types of cancer.
And so it’s made me all the more motivated, engaged, and focused on making the most out of my life, and I think that there’s no higher calling than, than public service, and to me, I think politics is a noble profession, and one that I would be fantastic at serving this district as. So she wanted me to win, and I intend to honor her by doing just that.covering culture, celebrity, and more.
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