After former President Donald Trump’s recent move to counter the Soros philanthropy network, recent reports indicate the billionaire’s vast network of NGOs experienced turmoil starting late last year. After George Soros stepped down in 2023, his son, Alex, took the reins tasked with opposing Trump and advancing liberal causes.

Alex Soros has emerged as a pivotal figure in Democrat Party dynamics and liberal political funding. However, a unfavorable New York Magazine profile published Tuesday quoting an anonymous source reveals that George’s son may not be able to adequately fill his father’s shoes and questions the the 39-year old’s ability to lead effectively.

The real story is that every single person who knows the family knows that Alex was exactly the wrong person to lead the foundation. …In private [Alex] is brooding and cerebral and has a propensity for candor and bursts of hot-temperedness.

His halting, Peter Thiel–like baritone is full of ahs and ums, and his sentences can sound like records skipping, as if he were unable to easily put into language what is clear in his mind. This slightly tortured persona has invited comparisons with his elder half-brother Jonathan, who sprang from Harvard Law School and a federal clerkship to work alongside his father in finance and philanthropy.

George Soros has long drawn the ire America’s conservative and populist groups, bankrolling numerous social justice initiatives, including environmentalist causes, like climate change propaganda. Because of this, Soros’s critics have labeled him as a kind of puppet master, accusing the philanthropist of secretly shaping U.S. left-wing politics more than anyone in recent times. However, this New York Magazine article implies that Alex Soros may not wield the same level of influence.

Alex Soros has been labeled as Smart but f**king impossible and not particularly interested in the details. Meaning that just because Alex Soros inherited a lot of money and influence doesn’t mean he knows what to do with it. Fortunately, George Soros’s heir seems to be more interested in vanity while funding a number of campaigns in order to continue his dad’s legacy but a lack of strategic planning or depth of motivation to accomplish any successful undertakings.