On Thursday, Time magazine published its list of the 100 most influential people on earth. One of them is President Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner — an obvious choice on Time’s part given that Kushner has been assigned responsibility for handling everything from the opioid crisis to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Time got Henry Kissinger, President Nixon’s ethically dubious foreign policy consigliere, to write a short blurb about Kushner — and his praise was comically faint. Here’s the whole write-up — I’ve omitted nothing:

Transitioning the presidency between parties is one of the most complex undertakings in American politics. The change triggers an upheaval in the intangible mechanisms by which Washington runs: an incoming President is likely to be less familiar with formal structures, and the greater that gap, the heavier the responsibility of those advisers who are asked to fill it. This space has been traversed for nearly four months by Jared Kushner, whom I first met about 18 months ago, when he introduced himself after a foreign policy lecture I had given. We have sporadically ­exchanged views since. As part of the Trump family, Jared is familiar with the intangibles of the President. As a graduate of Harvard and NYU, he has a broad education; as a businessman, a knowledge of administration. All this should help him make a success of his daunting role flying close to the sun.

Five things to note about this: