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President Donald Trump's son-in-law and daughter are holding onto scores of real estate investments — part of a portfolio of at least $240 million in assets — while they serve in White House jobs, according to new financial disclosures._ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 24, 2017 6:55 AM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 24, 2017 6:55 AM UTC John Oliver has a few questions about what is going on in the White House, or as Oliver calls it “the building inside which [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4751730/donald-trump-100-days-approval-ratings/?xid=homepage) is regularly naked.” If that image keeps you up at night, Oliver is okay with it, because he wants to make sure anyone banking on[ Jared Kushner](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742700/jared-kushner/) and [Ivanka Trump](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742699/ivanka-trump/) keeping the country and world safe to have a good long think about that. Oliver likens Kushner and Trump to “America’s William and Kate, except in this case both of them are attractive.” According to Oliver, the couple have been playing an important role for liberals who are anxious in the wake of the election and banking on the pair acting as a moderating influence on [the President](http://time.com/4748080/bruce-springsteen-donald-trump-song/?xid=homepage) and guiding his hand away from the big red button labeled “Nuke Earth.” On _Last Week Tonight_, Oliver tried to figure out whether Ivanka (“Trump’s only daughter, except for and yet somehow including Tiffany,” Oliver joked) was truly a moderating influence on her father. Oliver also took a close look into what in Kushner’s background justifies his current role in the [White House,](http://time.com/4748290/sarah-palin-kid-rock-ted-nugent-donald-trump-photo/?xid=homepage) where he has been tasked with jobs like solving the opioid crisis, finding peace in the Middle East, and restructuring the entire federal government. Oliver’s research revealed that Kushner’s main trait appeared to be that he was very quiet, so quiet in fact, that Oliver was only able to find one interview with him — and he sounds an awful lot like “Gilbert Gottfried.” While Trump and Kushner and their supporters are probably unhappy with Oliver’s attention, Oliver swears this wasn’t an attack on them. “I don’t know enough about them to eviscerate them, just as you don’t know enough about them to justify putting any real hopes in them,” said Oliver, before continuing: “If they are the reason you are sleeping at night you should probably still be awake.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4751894/john-oliver-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4751894/john-oliver-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/"},"headline":"John Oliver Casts Some Shade on The White House","datePublished":"2017-04-24T06:55:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:49:09.421Z","description":"John Oliver has a few questions about Ivanka Trump's and Jared Kushner's roles in the White House","url":"https://time.com/4751894/john-oliver-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/","keywords":["Television","Donald Trump","John Oliver","Last Week Tonight","Ivanka Trump","jared kushner","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4751894/john-oliver-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/","name":"John Oliver Casts Some Shade on The White House"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Team Trump’s Financial Disclosures Reveal It's One of the Wealthiest Administrations","description":"President Donald Trump's son-in-law and daughter are holding onto scores of real estate investments — part of a portfolio of at least $240 million in assets — while they serve in White House jobs, according to new financial disclosures.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DYKx7jRy/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-04-01T16:54:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DYKx7jRy.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4751894/john-oliver-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/","duration":"PT48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4751894/john-oliver-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```