02/11/2025

Trump Names Richard Grenell to Head the Kennedy Center

The installation leaves its future uncertain

President Donald Trump named former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell as the interim executive director of the Kennedy Center in a post on Truth Social, Trump's social media platform, installing an ally at the head of one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, which Trump has vowed to overhaul.

The president's authority to unilaterally reshape the board, install new staff and make himself board chairman is an open question for the public-private institution.

"So we took over the Kennedy Center. We didn't like what they were showing and various other things," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday evening, adding, "But we have, I guess, a whole new group of people going in. ... I'm going to be chairman of it, and we're going to make sure that it's good and it's not going to be woke."*

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