{"id":25358,"date":"2026-03-14T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/trump-announces-the-departure-of-grenell-from-the-position-of-director-of-the-john-f-kennedy-center\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:40:08","slug":"trump-announces-the-departure-of-grenell-from-the-position-of-director-of-the-john-f-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/trump-announces-the-departure-of-grenell-from-the-position-of-director-of-the-john-f-kennedy-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces the departure of Grenell from the position of director of the “John F. Kennedy Center”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US President Donald Trump has announced that Richard “Ric” Grenell will step down as director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a role he has held since his appointment in February 2025.<\/p>\n

According to Trump’s announcement, Matt Floca, the center’s vice president of operations, will take over the executive direction of the institution and oversee the management of daily, with the decision formalized during a meeting of the board of directors at the White House, reports lajmi.net.<\/p>\n

Grenell’s departure comes as the Kennedy Center prepares for a two-year shutdown for renovations, following a tumultuous management period that included reorganizations and the placement of Trump’s name on the building’s facade \u2014 a decision that prompted backlash and cancellations from prominent artists.<\/p>\n

Trump thanked Grenell. for his work during the transition, but sources close to the White House say the president has grown tired of constant reports of Kennedy Center management problems. During his tenure, Grenell faced protests, performance cancellations, declining ticket sales and financial difficulties as he tried to implement the president’s vision for the institution.<\/p>\n

CNN’s sources point out that despite the previous closeness between Trump and Grenell \u2014 a known loyalist who has held various posts during two presidential terms \u2014 the president has begun to lose patience with continued criticism of his management of the facility. center.<\/p>\n

\u201cRic has worked hard to remain Trump’s favorite, but the president is tired of hearing every day that the Kennedy Center is being mismanaged and that Trump is destroying it,\u201d said a source close to the center.<\/p>\n

Grenell is also known for his international activities; in the Balkans, he is known for his lobbying ties to the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, as well as his role as the US envoy to the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.<\/p>\n

His tenure at the Kennedy Center will be remembered as a period of turbulence and controversial decisions, as American art institutions prepare for a new beginning under Flocas.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump has announced that Richard “Ric” Grenell will step down as director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a role he has held since his appointment in February 2025. According to Trump’s announcement, Matt Floca, the center’s vice president of operations, will take over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-25358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brief"],"views":18,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25360,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25358\/revisions\/25360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}