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jls4561

(3,065 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 05:19 PM Yesterday

At last, some good news. Maybe. Ric Grenell is leaving the Kennedy Center!

The incompetent and complacent Ric Grenell is stepping down as head of the Kennedy Center. Mr. Grenell, whose previous job was as Trump’s incompetent ambassador to Germany, has, along with the incompetent flunkies who replaced the previous board, have done much to destroy the once admired institution. However, he did get Trump’s name on the building and spend needless money on useless tacky “renovations “. Mission accomplished.
I cannot find any information on Matt Floca, Grenell’s successor. There is the usual tripe on the Kennedy Center page, but since I cannot trust a damn thing this administration puts out, I will assume he is equally incompetent and unqualified as Mr. Grenell unless I learn otherwise.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nation-world/ric-grenell-kennedy-center-president-stepping-down/507-cfe8a951-b75d-49bf-8897-707ef3ab1530

It is unclear what Mr. Grenell’s next role within the administration will be, but one can rest assured that he will be unqualified for it.

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At last, some good news. Maybe. Ric Grenell is leaving the Kennedy Center! (Original Post) jls4561 Yesterday OP
The first qualification to get a role in the regime is to be unqualified. yellow dahlia Yesterday #1
K&R - He can go manage CHALAMET UTUSN Yesterday #4
"Matt, is this the first time that you've defaced a public building?" maxsolomon Yesterday #2
With them the replacement always seems worse than their predecessor. Xavier Breath Yesterday #3
I'm thinking maybe there's an opening for an assistant to the Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas Permanut Yesterday #5

maxsolomon

(38,580 posts)
2. "Matt, is this the first time that you've defaced a public building?"
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 05:29 PM
Yesterday
https://www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-defacing-kennedy-center

As workers were adding Trump’s name to the building on Friday, Matt Floca, vice president for Facilities and Operations at the Kennedy Center, told this reporter — who was standing outside of the construction cone-delineated area and was wearing a congressional press pass — to stop taking photographs from the one side of the effort.

After walking through the mostly empty building, Law Dork found Floca outside, as workers continued in their task.

“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“

“Are you recording me?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?”

“Because I’m a reporter.”

“If you turn this off, we can have a conversation.”

“Why?”

“Because I don’t want to be recorded right now. I’m doing my job, and you’re out here bothering me. So, just give me a second and we can talk, if you’d like.”

Xavier Breath

(6,624 posts)
3. With them the replacement always seems worse than their predecessor.
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 05:55 PM
Yesterday

Matt Fuckup is more like it.

Permanut

(8,318 posts)
5. I'm thinking maybe there's an opening for an assistant to the Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas
Fri Mar 13, 2026, 05:56 PM
Yesterday

Lotta work to be done there.

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