{"id":68927,"date":"2026-03-13T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/trump-replaces-ric-grenell-as-kennedy-center-head\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:54:50","slug":"trump-replaces-ric-grenell-as-kennedy-center-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/trump-replaces-ric-grenell-as-kennedy-center-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump replaces Ric Grenell as Kennedy Center head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President thanks Grenell for \u2018outstanding work\u2019 and says Matt Floca, vice-president of operations, will take over<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has announced that Ric Grenell, the longtime Republican foreign policy adviser who oversaw far-reaching changes at the Kennedy Center, which prompted many artists to abandon the performing arts venue, will be replaced by Matt Floca, vice-president of operations at the center.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116223780884576729\">announcement<\/a> on social media that he has replaced Grenell, thanking him for the \u201coutstanding work he has done\u201d. Floca was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawdork.com\/p\/q-and-a-defacing-kennedy-center\">photographed in December<\/a> personally overseeing the addition of Trump\u2019s name to the center\u2019s facade. Grenell\u2019s departure comes as the Kennedy Center prepares to close this summer for a two-year renovation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/13\/trump-ric-grenell-kennedy-center\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President thanks Grenell for \u2018outstanding work\u2019 and says Matt Floca, vice-president of operations, will take over Donald Trump has announced that Ric Grenell, the longtime Republican foreign policy adviser who oversaw far-reaching changes at the Kennedy Center, which prompted many artists to abandon the performing arts venue, will be replaced by Matt Floca, vice-president of &#8230; <a title=\"Trump replaces Ric Grenell as Kennedy Center head\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/trump-replaces-ric-grenell-as-kennedy-center-head\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump replaces Ric Grenell as Kennedy Center head\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}