Men's Health ran a piece on "The World's Biggest Douchebags" in 2011. It identified five detestable people and evaluated their offenses vs. their talent.
While working for a healthcare PEU affiliate I heard legitimate employee concerns consistently characterized as "whining" by management. I saw management regularly bully employees. Those same behaviors made today's news.
Thus, I nominate LIV Golf Tour executive Greg Norman and Jared Kushner for their classic douche moves. Greg Norman did not hear the reporter being ejected from a Phil Mickleson LIV press conference because he saw it from a few feet away.
Jared Kushner knew a slew of White House staffers quit in protest over Trump's sitting on his keister while his followers unleashed the Kracken on the U.S. Capital on January 6th. Were all those whining too?
America suffers from selfish, greedy executives and politicians. They'll get theirs and could care less what happens to others, especially people of conscience.
Jared Kushner started Affinity Partners, a private equity underwriter (PEU) that received $2 billion in funding from Saudi Arabia's PIF sovereign wealth fund. PIF is behind the LIV Golf Tour. It's not clear is Affinity invested in LIV alongside PIF.
Update: Not long ago LIV Chief and douchebag Greg Norman said:
“We’re executing extremely well across all sectors of the ecosystem."
Another poor choice of words. Khashoggi! A LIV Golf media representative apologized to the reporter in a classic move of good cop/bad cop. Was that Ari Fleischer?
Update 6-11-22: Jared had a reputation in the Trump White House.
Throughout the entirety of the Trump presidency, Kushner had a reputation — one that was a reliable, recurring source of much derision and inside-humor within the upper ranks of the administration — for suddenly vanishing from a major policy or political initiative when the going got tough or the public-relations baggage swelled too large.