At 41 years old, former President Donald Trump’s billionaire son-in-law Jared Kushner would have less than 40 more years to live based on recent U.S. statistics. However, Kushner said he believes that his generation could live forever.
“I think that there’s a good probability that my generation – hopefully with the advances in science – is either the…first generation to live forever or the last generation that’s going to die,” he said in a video recently uploaded to YouTube by LiveSigning. “So, we need to keep ourselves in pretty good shape.”
Kushner’s memoir “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” was released earlier this month. In it, the real estate developer, businessman and investor chronicles his time as senior advisor to his father-in-law and reveals that he was treated for thyroid cancer while in the White House.
“I needed surgery to remove an unusual growth in my thyroid and we scheduled the operation for the Friday before Thanksgiving,” Kushner wrote. At the time, he wanted to keep his diagnosis private and didn’t want to miss much work time.
Since leaving the White House after current President Joe Biden was elected, Kushner said he has spent more time making breakfast for the three children he shares with Ivanka Trump, as well as meditating and working out.
“The one thing I’ve tried to put I priority on since I left the White House is, you know, getting some exercise in,” he said in the recent video, before he made the comment about living forever.
According to The Daily Beast, “a source close to Kushner” said his comment was actually a joke.
“It’s like a tongue-in-cheek joke to make the larger point that he wants to work out and be in good shape because people are living longer lives,” said the source.
Earlier this year, “Is there a cap on longevity? A statistical review” was published in the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application journal.
“There is sustained and widespread interest in understanding the limit, if any, to the human lifespan,” authors of the paper said. Their analysis suggested “that remaining life-length after age 109 is exponentially distributed, and that any upper limit lies well beyond the highest lifetime yet reliably recorded.”
A study published last May in the Nature journal estimates the upper limit of human life between 120 and 150 years old. Though some have cast doubt on her age, Jeanne Calment is generally considered the person with the oldest recorded lifespan at 122 years old.
While some people manage to live long lives, others are not expected to live beyond their 70s. In fact, the average life expectancy in the U.S. was 77 years old as of 2020, per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Death data for 2019-2021 obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics, the Human Mortality Database, and overseas statistical agencies and cited by a study that is preprint and has not been peer reviewed as of Friday indicates “life expectancy decreased from 78.86 years in 2019 to 76.99 years in 2020 and 76.60 years in 2021, a net loss of 2.26 years.”
According to that study “over the two-year period between 2019 and 2021, U.S. Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black populations experienced the largest losses in life expectancy, reflecting the legacy of systemic racism and inadequacies in the U.S. handling of the [COVID-19] pandemic.”
Other research shows that wealth could impact the human lifespan.
“The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years… for men and 10.1 years… for women,” said a peer-reviewed study published in 2016 that already made a correlation between income and longevity in the U.S.
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