It’s hard to underestimate Jared Kushner’s ability to fail. He has a strong track record. His failures include running a storied New York media title into the ground and saddling his family real estate company with a record-setting purchase of 666 Fifth Avenue (before an investor agreed to bail them out a little over 10 years later). It wasn’t a big surprise when he failed to broker peace in the Middle East, nor is it a surprise that his role in the White House Coronavirus Task force is questionable at best. He spoke from the White House on those efforts on Thursday. “Kushner is an idiot” was trending on Twitter by Friday.

For Kushner’s manifold responsibilities as an unelected official in his father-in-law’s administration, the public is rarely treated to his appearance in front of live news cameras and microphones—for whatever reason. We got one Thursday, and while it raised plenty of questions, I want to focus briefly on his very clear and moist skin. Here, behold his glow as he tries to shift blame of the ventilator shortage from the federal government to the states:

There’s no denying that his skin is pretty good, despite his resemblance, some say, to a wet “haunted doll.” The haunted part is likely thanks to the way that it hangs across his bone structure. But having doll-like skin is generally considered good; that smooth clarity is what we’re all aiming for with our facials and our topicals.

So what’s his secret? We know that he “exfoliates” his friends—but may or may not exfoliate his skin? Does having a thin layer of flop sweat at all times work as a kind of moisturizer? Is the growing arch of his brow a consequence of Botox? Maybe! These are all fine guesses. But I think the major reason he is unwrinkled is an unearned confidence. He’s reportedly been calm, cool, collected, and convinced this pandemic is “more about public psychology than a health reality.” As Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman wrote Wednesday, he told White House staff in confidence that he believes the state of New York, which currently has 102,863 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 3,000 dead at the time of writing, is overestimating its need for ventilators. “I have all this data about ICU capacity. I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators,” he said. (As Michelle Goldberg pointed out in the New York Times Opinion section, Kushner all but confirmed as much publicly yesterday, saying, “People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections which are not the realistic projections.”)

With that kind of confidence, it’s possible he’ll never wrinkle.

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