Trollish Dickweed Ric Grenell Leaving Kennedy Center After Spending Full Year Wrecking It

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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, f*ck off into the sun.

Let us now hold a requiem for Richard Grenell, the frying pan-faced asshole Donald Trump had the poor sense to put in charge of the Kennedy Center in February of 2025. Though we suppose saying Trump displayed poor sense implies that there was ever an occasion when he displayed good sense. He never has. Wonkette regrets the error.

Trump announced on Friday that Grenell will be leaving his position as head of the Kennedy Center after 13 months of wrecking everything good and decent about the place. In just over a year, Grenell and his patron have turned the Center from the nation’s premier performing arts space into an utter joke — feuding with artists, slapping Trump’s name on the building and rebranding it the Trump Kennedy Center, and watching ticket sales plummet so sharply that they resemble Trump’s plunging approval rating.

The problems started practically the minute Trump declared himself the chairman of the Kennedy Center board, which he then filled with his own flunkies, lickspittles, and people whose idea of great art is whatever gold shit Trump has slapped on the walls of the Oval Office.

The artist cancellations began immediately. Lin-Manuel Miranda announced he wouldn’t bring Hamilton to the Kennedy for a two-month run. This led to Grenell complaining that Miranda was “intolerant” of conservatives. This was a long-running theme for Grenell: anyone who didn’t like anything he was doing did not have a compelling aesthetic objection or a different view of what makes art. No, they were just woke bigots who had never made conservatives feel “welcome” at the Kennedy Center.

Why conservatives did not feel welcome watching the same symphony performances and jazz concerts that everyone else enjoyed was never explained, as it might detract from conservatives’ constant feeling that they are always the victims of everything.

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