Thirteen months was all it took to break the Kennedy Center. The news of Ric Grenell's exit'or, his 'plans to transition out of his role,' as Axios put it when breaking the story yesterday'suggests the end of a high period in which the Kennedy Center has continually pissed people off, and the beginning of one in which fewer and fewer people even notice it. One clue to this new direction can be found in Grenell's apparent replacement. President Trump announced on Truth Social that Matt Floca, the Kennedy Center's vice president of facilities, would lead the place. Floca began working at the organization during the Biden administration but became Trump's go-to renovation buddy'someone Trump started to call regularly for updates about all the changes he had ordered, such as redoing the seats in the opera house, according to The New York Times. The personnel swap comes nearly three months after Trump's handpicked board of trustees voted to add his name to the Kennedy Center, and a...
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