The Left is melting down faster than a snowflake in July because President Trump finally put adults in charge of the Kennedy Center, and they're actually fixing the money-pit disaster the Biden clowns left behind.
Enter Acting President Ric Grenell, Trump's bulldog who's been cleaning house at the taxpayer-funded arts palace. He went on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo and absolutely eviscerated Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who’s been screeching that the place is "being looted to the tune of millions of dollars in foregone revenue, cancelled programming, unpaid use of its facilities, and wasteful spending on luxury restaurants and hotels—an unprecedented pattern of self-dealing, favoritism, and waste."
Whitehouse even penned a hysterical letter claiming: "Contracts, invoices, and facility use agreements reveal that you operate the Center for the enrichment of your friends and acquaintances, to dole out political favors, and as a playground for the President of the United States and his allies."
Grenell's response was to invite Whitehouse to a meeting.
The guy who’s on the board hasn’t shown up to a single one.
Grenell dropped the hammer to Bartiromo: "who’s on the Kennedy Center board, should show up for some of these meetings. He hasn't been to a single meeting. If he had gone to the meetings, he would understand that President Trump has saved the Kennedy Center."
And about that "free" FIFA deal Whitehouse is losing his mind over? Grenell fired back in writing that the senator's rant "did not undergo basic fact-checking" and was "filled with partisan attacks and false accusations." He told the Democrat his staff "relied on anonymous sources, inaccurate gossip, and allegations from partisan reporters who never had access to the data or facts I’m happy to provide below."
Reality check: "FIFA has given them several million dollars, in addition to paying all of the expenses for this event in lieu of a rental fee," Grenell explained. "Your focus on simple rental fees is no way to run an institution as diverse as the Kennedy Center. A simple rental fee would not have been enough to cover the magnitude of the event."
So, FIFA is dumping multimillions into the Kennedy Center, way more than some chump rental fee, while covering every dime of expenses. But sure, Sheldon, keep whining about “free” stuff while Democrats torch billions on green grift nobody asked for.
Grenell laid out the real mess he walked into: "The books were a mess when I walked in. We were paying staff with debt reserves. We didn’t have money in the bank. It was chaos when it came to programming. What President Trump said was 'let’s clean it up.'"
Kennedy Center VP Roma Daravi piled on to The Daily Wire: FIFA is handing over "multimillions of dollars, much more than what a rental’s revenue would have been, plus they are covering all expenses." And yeah, she called out the senator and his media lapdogs for "purposely shared misleading information with the New York Times and Washington Post, and none of them cared if any of it was true."
"The press and the Senator should be ashamed of the lies they print and reprint, we want a cultural center for all Americans but they push lies to sow division amongst Americans for their selfish moment in a headline," Daravi blasted.
Crickets when asked for comment, Whitehouse was mum.
Grenell bragged, rightfully, that they slashed a bloated 94-person development staff down to 16, saving $4 million in that department alone. The old boss was pocketing $1.2 million a year while the building literally crumbled. This was now the first balanced budget in decades. Food costs were slashed, and yes, they axed the woke garbage that was tanking attendance.
"Of course they cry when we try to bring it to the middle," Grenell told Bartiromo. "They’re losing their woke programming."
The Kennedy Center raised $58 million in 35 days, then blew past $117 million total, more than double what the Democrat Party has scraped together all year. "People are giving more to the Kennedy Center than the Democrat Party," Grenell crowed. "Say it louder for the reporters in the back."
Bottom line: Trump's team is running the Kennedy Center like a business instead of a leftist slush fund, and the usual suspects are throwing a tantrum because their gravy train got derailed.Cry harder, Sheldon. The adults are in charge now, and transparency is the new normal. As Grenell put it: Whitehouse and his crew "can see exactly what we're doing."
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