“Ric Grenell has done an excellent job in helping to
coordinate various elements of the Center during the transition period,
and I want to thank him for the outstanding work he has done,” Trump
wrote. The Kennedy Center did not provide additional comment about
Grenell’s departure.
Grenell explained that things were a mess when he came in.
“The
books were a mess when I walked in. We were paying staff with debt
reserves, we didn’t have money in the bank,” Grenell said during an interview on Fox News in November.
Trump
and his new Kennedy Center team have also claimed that the center was
in grave disrepair — reporting broken elevators, rat infestations and
crumbling concrete in the parking garage.
That's one of the reasons it's now been closed for renovations.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tried to attack Grenell.
Like a mob bust-out gone
wrong, Trumpsters’ looting of the Kennedy Center has put it out of
business, and now it needs to be “closed for renovations” as cover-up.
No surprise he’s being replaced.
But the
response from Grenell was savage. I think Sheldon is not used to being
so completely upended. He's likely to remember this one.
Your buffoonery knows no limits.
You sat silent while the place went into total disrepair.
You
sat silent while the staff was paid with monies designed to pay off the
future $30 million loan coming due in 2030 because there was no money
in the bank to pay salaries.
You sat silent while corporations left because of the hard left woke programming.
We
fixed it. And we are doing the right thing to close the entire place in
a few weeks to renovate it - because of your years of neglect.
This Washington game of kicking the can down the road and never solving problems has ended with President Trump.
It
doesn’t matter what you or the New York Times or CNN says. We are
fixing the place that YOU ruined. It becomes a construction site for two
years because you failed to keep up with the maintenance.
And we have a world-class construction leader to do it the right way. You are welcome.
Now that's a satisfying drubbing of the execrable Whitehouse, who certainly deserved it.
But
the bottom line, as Grenell laid out, the Democrats, when they were in
control, let the Center go to disrepair, and didn't give a darn. They
only care now because they want to attack Trump - it's always their
motivation for everything they do, even something that should be
non-political, like the Center. If Joe Biden were in charge, they'd go
back to being asleep and ignoring it.
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