Jared Kushner has a lot going on. His father-in-law, President Donald J. Trump, has a bunch of quick tasks he'd like Jared, a White House senior advisor, to get right on.

These include:

• Finally bring peace to the Middle East.

• Head up an Office of American Innovation, which is tasked, in part, with tackling the country's opioid epidemic.

• Advise the President during this weekend's meeting with China's President Xi Jinping.

That Kush, a 36-year-old real estate developer, has no experience in any of these areas is of no real importance to his father-in-law.

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As Trump said on the campaign trail: "Jared is a great young man, went to Harvard, very smart, doing a fantastic job in business. He’s in the real estate business and has done an amazing job."

Still, the weight of these tasks, coupled with feigning respect for Steve Bannon when cameras are around, must weigh heavily on Kush's shoulders.

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Perhaps that'd explain why he spends so much time blankly staring into the middle distance.

Jared, what do you know that we don't?

"Hello darkness, my old friend..."Credit: Drew Angerer / Staff"I've come to talk with you again..."Credit: ablo Martinez Monsivais/AP/REX/Shutterstock"Because a vision softly creeping..."Credit: Dominique A. Pineiro/DoD via Getty Images"Left its seeds while I was sleeping..."Credit: MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/REX/Shutterstock"And the vision that was planted in my brain..."Credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images"Still remains..."Credit: AP/REX/Shutterstock"Within the sound of silence."Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images"In restless dreams I walked alone..."Credit: Greg E. Mathieson Sr/MAI/REX "Narrow streets of cobblestone ‘Neath the halo of a streetlamp..."Credit: REX/Shutterstock"I turned my collar to the cold and damp..."Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images"When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light..."Credit: Dominique A. Pineiro/DoD via Getty ImagesThat split the nightCredit: REX/Shutterstock"And touched the sound of silence."Credit: JUSTIN LANE/EPA/REX/Shutterstock

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