Ric Grenell Drops Some Reality on Kennedy Center | Political News
To paraphrase one thing my colleague Susie Moore acknowledged in an earlier piece about the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals offering much-needed steering to decrease courts on a miniscule group of the barrage of instances against President Trump and his administration, we proceed to comply with the saga of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Readers doubtless keep in mind the brouhaha by progressives close to the start of Trump’s new time period when he introduced he was kicking off some of the board members and appointing himself the new chair of the famed arts venue.
Although a few days later, the president named former U.S. ambassador to Germany and U.S. Envoy for Special Missions, Ric Grenell, as interim government director.
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During CPAC 2025, Grenell addressed the poor state of the Kennedy Center’s funds, sharing that Pres. Trump doubtless has the identical considerations about the group’s capacity to “Make Art Great Again,” as Grenell put it in the interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns.
I feel, I do not know for sure, but I feel the frustration President Trump has is that the Kennedy Center has no money on hand. No reserves. And they’ve been paying for the salaries with the debt reserves. While taking around more than 40 million {dollars} in public money. You cannot have that. If you are going to take public money, then you get to have public enter.
So, what we’re gonna say at the Kennedy Center, first of all, we gotta clean up the financial scenario. We have to do the massive productions that the plenty and the public need to see. We need to have actually massive programming.
And my colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell included one tidbit that leftists went wild over before Grenell cleared it up–and it relates to Thursday’s story:
Grenell also cleared up some misinformation about an artist who supposedly dropped out from performing on the Kennedy Center stage because Trump took over the middle and put in Grenell. Grenell made it recognized that some of these choices had been made before Trump took over, and the choice to drop the act was based mostly on the efficiency not producing ample ticket gross sales.
He also hinted that the Center can have a particular Christmas show. Maybe we’ll get more particulars on that in the approaching months. Anyway, earlier this week, some performers in the touring forged of “Les Misérables” who had been slated to participate in an upcoming charity fundraiser/efficiency at the Center threatened to boycott it … because Pres. Trump is set to seem.
On Wednesday, while talking to Entertainment Weekly, Ric Grenell just laid out the “Les Miz” performers, according to industry publication Variety. First, it appeared this was the first time he had heard the “rumor” about the controversy, then he added, “But the Kennedy Center will no longer fund intolerance.”
He stated that it shows who is “unprofessional” in the performance company, and that any producer thinking of hiring any of these performers might be inspired to think again.
Here’s his full quote:
“Any performer who isn’t professional enough to perform for patrons of all backgrounds, regardless of political affiliation, won’t be welcomed,” Grenell added. “In fact, we think it would be important to out those vapid and intolerant artists to ensure producers know who they shouldn’t hire — and that the public knows which shows have political litmus tests to sit in the audience.”
He continued, “The Kennedy Center wants to be a place where people of all political stripes sit next to each other and never ask who someone voted for but instead enjoy a performance together.”
This is precisely how Republicans need to deal with this kind of infantile wokeness from the “resistance” to America First ideas and all issues Trump. Let’s keep on this path. Warn them that there are real-world penalties for their emotional advantage signaling–and let the chips fall where they might.
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