President Donald Trump made a crack about son-in-law Jared Kushner becoming more famous than himself – prompting immediate speculation that the quip could mean the White House aide's days were numbered.

Trump made the comment in the Roosevelt Room inside the West Wing, where both Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, landed high-level advisory positions.

Trump offered a brief comment about former FBI Director James Comey – whom he fired not long after making a similar observation about Comey's time in the spotlight. Now, Comey is set to testify before a Senate panel about its Russia investigation.

Pointing to Kushner, Trump said, 'Jared has actually become much more famous than me — I'm a little upset at that.'

'Jared has actually become much more famous than me,' Trump said Tuesday in reference to his son-in-law Jared Kushner

As gathered GOP heavyweights laughed, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise then turned to Kushner, and said: 'That's a badge of honor.'

Kushner, who has been the butt of jokes on Saturday Night Live for his limited speaking roles, smiled and clasped his hands in front of himself, according to a pool report by one of the media members who was in the room at the time Trump made the joke.

Trump made a similar joke about Comey at the White House in January.

'He's become more famous than me,' Trump quipped.

The remark came at a time, it was later revealed, when Trump was dining and speaking with Comey, and reportedly asking whether he himself was under FBI investigation.

The president is known now to like to share the spotlight with others in his orbit

Saturday Night Live did a skit in April mocking the civil war between Kushner and chief strategist Steve Bannon. They faced off in a Bachelorette-style competition

Trump made the during a meeting with congressional leaders

During one such meeting, the president reportedly told him: 'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,' and vouched that Flynn was a 'good guy.'

That was a reference to an ongoing FBI investigation into now-fired national security advisor Mike Flynn, who is being probed for his Russia contacts. Flynn just turned over hundreds of pages of documents to the Senate panel in connection with its probe.

Kushner has been under fire since it was revealed an independent counsel and a Senate panel are probing his contacts with Russians, including Russia's ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak and the head of a Russian bank.

He has carved out a role as one of the president's most trusted advisors, weighing in on the Middle East, helping broker arms pledges by the Saudis, and actin as a liaison to China.