Ric Grenell explains why artists may be refusing to perform at the Trump-Kennedy Center

The elites in the performing arts world are throwing a full-blown meltdown over President Trump's name joining JFK's on the Kennedy Center, and it's exposing just how intolerant the left truly is when they don't get their way.

Red State recently reported, that the board of trustees, stacked with Trump's appointees, voted unanimously to rename the iconic venue The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, or the Trump-Kennedy Center for short. This honors Trump's massive efforts throughout 2025 to rescue and revitalize the place, pouring in upgrades and modernization under the guidance of his handpicked interim president, Ric Grenell.

New signs went up almost overnight, and that's when the hissy fits began, not from ticket buyers, but from the performers themselves.

Nick Arama, another reporter from Red State, nailed the coverage on jazz musician Chuck Redd, who'd been hosting the center's Christmas Eve "Jazz Jams" since 2006. He bailed at the last minute after spotting the name change. "When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert," Redd told The Associated Press.

Grenell wasn't having it, hitting back hard and threatening a $1 million lawsuit against Redd for breaching his contract.

"Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” Grenell wrote.

“Regrettably, your action surrenders to the sad bullying tactics employed by certain elements on the left, who have sought to intimidate artists into boycotting performances at our national cultural center," he added.

And Redd's not alone in prioritizing politics over paying fans. The New York jazz outfit The Cookers ditched their New Year's Eve shows, bloviating that "Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice."

Are you kidding?  Adding Trump's name to the building somehow muzzles "human voices"? 

Cut me a huss [don't Google it; Grok it], Trump didn't silence anyone; these guys are the ones ditching their audiences.

Country/folk singer Kristy Lee scrapped her January slot to preserve what she called her integrity, and the Doug Varone and Dancers company axed their April dates, whining they couldn't "step inside this once great institution." Of course it's their call, but don't pretend it's anything but a TDS-fueled tantrum.

Sure, artists cancel for all sorts of reasons: sickness, emergencies, or straight-up political freak-outs. But Grenell dropped a bombshell, claiming he's heard directly from booked acts that CNN and The Washington Post are actively emailing them, pushing boycotts of the Trump-Kennedy Center.

If that's accurate, and there's zero reason to doubt Grenell on this, it's outright interference, the media acting as left-wing activists trying to sabotage a national institution. Classic. It lays bare the left's entitlement: they think they own places like this, and if Trump touches it, they'll burn it down so nobody else can enjoy it. The real victims? The fans and patrons who lose out because orange man bad.

This is peak liberal hypocrisy on display, and it's glorious to watch it backfire.

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Boasberg's Reign of Terror on the Bench Could Be Coming to a Screeching Halt as GOP Rep Drops Impeachment Hammer

Oh, the sweet sound of accountability finally catching up to a partisan hack in a black robe. Leftist poster boy Judge James Boasberg is learning the hard way that you can't just play fast and loose with the Constitution forever without someone swinging back. Texas Rep. Brandon Gill (R-26), who's reportedly gearing up to file articles of impeachment against this clown in the fallout from the latest bombshell on Biden's dystopian spy op, Operation Arctic Frost.

Fresh off a chat with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds (R-19) spilled the beans that his Texas counterpart Gill is knee-deep in paperwork to boot Boasberg, who moonlights as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for D.C., right out of his cushy gig. This all blew up after this week's gut-punch reveal: a whopping 197 subpoenas targeting conservative heavyweights and everyday Americans in Biden's fever-dream surveillance scheme via Operation Arctic Frost.

Exhibit A is a sneaky subpoena for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) from then-Special Counsel Jack Smith to AT&T, rubber-stamped by Boasberg himself, who slapped a gag order on the telecom giant to keep the Texas senator in the dark. As conservative platform RedState laid out, it's peak weaponization.

"He should be impeached. This is why I'm glad that my colleague out of Texas, Rep. Brandon Gill, is actually filing those documents to have him impeached," Donalds fired off. "You can not have a judge just be rogue in our system of justice, helping to abet a rogue prosecutor like Jack Smith to start targeting any American, let alone United States senators."

"This is outrageous! And once again, it demonstrates the length to which the Democrats would stoop in order to keep political power in the United States," he added. "This is not about the Constitution. This is not about the American people. This is about their craven desire to remain in power."

"And you can look at this shutdown or anything else that's going on this year to demonstrate the fact that the Democrats do not care what lever they have to pull or where they have to go to," Donalds continued. "It's about power for them first, second, and third, not the American people, not the Constitution."

Cruz, naturally, was the first Republican voice roaring for Boasberg's head on a pike after this Arctic Frost fiasco came to light. He dissected the judge's deranged order to AT&T, accusing Cruz of being a flight risk for evidence-torching.The report read:

"'The court finds reasonable grounds that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence,'" Cruz read, speaking about the order. "'Intimidation of witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.'"

"There is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence," he added. "Or to intimidate potential witnesses. Zero evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abuse of power. This order is a weaponized legal system."

Cruz demanded the House impeach Boasberg for "abuse of power," all while issuing subpoenas against Republicans on zero probable cause.

Not to be outdone, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) piled on, declaring it the first time in his career he's ever bayed for a judge's impeachment. "This is the first time I've called for a judge's impeachment. Normally, appellate courts and the Supreme Court rein in rogue district judges. Not Boasberg--he's truly lawless. He's openly biased, gone rogue, and likely broken the law."

Buckle up, folks. We will see if Boasberg's house of cards finally topples under the weight of his own arrogance. 

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Pam Bondi to Biden's Crew: Autopen Shenanigans? We're Auditing Every Last Stroke

Look, we all knew Biden's White House was running on fumes and favors, but the latest Oversight Committee gut-punch on his [or someone's] autopen addiction and the epic cover-up of his fade-to-black is the kind of "bombshell" that makes even the most jaded conservative crack a grim smile. Enter Attorney General Pam Bondi. She is not wasting a New York minute before unleashing the hounds of the basketballs.

As Red State's Nick Arama laid out yesterday, the House Oversight crew dropped a report that's basically a neon sign screaming "IMPEACHMENT AFTER THE FACT." No "sufficient contemporaneous documentation" that doddering Joe personally green-lit executive moves? Boom, those decisions are as void as Biden's sense of direction.

The report zeroed in on the pardons, demanding the DOJ "immediately conduct a review of all executive actions" from Biden's Oval Office squat, as per Arama's report.

Cue the Republican House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, firing off a letter to Bondi like it's happy hour at the accountability bar. Their X post nailed it: "In light of our bombshell Biden Autopen Presidency report, Chairman [Republican Rep. James Comer (KY-1)] is calling on @AGPamBondi to conduct a review of ALL executive actions taken during the Biden presidency," the post read.

"He's also referring Dr. Kevin O'Connor, Annie Tomasini, and Anthony Bernal for further investigation after they took the Fifth during our deposition," it added. Bondi is all in, quicker than Hunter sniffing out a cocaine stash. Her response was a masterclass in "hold my Diet Coke":

"My team has already initiated a review of the Biden administration's reported use of autopen for pardons," Bondi wrote. "@RepJamesComer's new information is extremely helpful, and his leadership on this issue is invaluable. We'll continue working with @GOPoversight to deliver accountability for the American people."

Arama's deep dive exposed the Biden bunker mentality in all its staged glory: From micromanaging Joe's "makeup, clothing, and schedule" to rationing his "number of steps" like he's training for the shuffleboard Olympics. They even dialed back cabinet meets, cribbed SOTU tips from Tinseltown hacks, and propped up teleprompters at whisper-quiet shindigs. 

So if they tell us they didn't know Joe's mental status, they're assuming we're too stupid to believe our eyes, ears and sense of smell.

Not one soul in the interviews admitted to worrying over Joe's mental melt-down. Zilch on chats about his "cognitive health with anyone inside or outside of the White House." It's like they all signed a pact: Deny, deflect, and deploy the autopen.

President Trump has maintained radio silence so far, but give it time; he's probably drafting the "I told you so" in gold Sharpie.

Bottom line: Biden never belonged anywhere near that Resolute Desk, and payday is coming for the grifters who handled him like a puppet while gaslighting us.

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Ilhan Omar's pro-Hamas protege daughter gets what's coming to her: reacts predictably

Ilhan Omar with open mouth

Pro-Palestinians [aka pro-Hamas; aka anti-Semites] believe that they are the most entitled people on the planet. Rep[ulsive] Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi turns out to be the poster child of this movement.

Hirsi was arrested and suspended from Columbia University on Thursday for setting up a CHAZ-style pro-Hamas encampment on campus. 

[H/T Red State]

The brat's immediate response was to interview with Teen Vogue, a magazine that has nothing much to do with teens and everything to do with hard left political opinion. There the young Islamist whined about her ordeal and it was enough to make the average American laugh out loud.

“I was a little bit frantic, like, where am I going to sleep? Where am I gonna go? And also all of my s**t is thrown in a random lot. It’s pretty horrible,” she told the communistophiliac magazine.

“I don’t know when I can go home, and I don’t know if I ever will be able to."

Sure, they're going to keep the spoiled rich daughter of a U.S. congresswoman in jail indefinitely. Of course that's nonsense, but it's also funny to hear her say that. But at least she finally got the reality check she deserved for trespassing in an encroaching tent city to support a terrorist group after being repeatedly told to leave.

Hirsi was not charged with a crime, and only got a school suspension that will only last as long as the useful idiots at Columbia are removed. But she's crying as if she's on a chain gang breaking rocks and making license plates. 

And she also pretends she has nowhere to go. If mommy won't take her in, maybe she can stay with her step-father-uncle-daddy. [It's all so confusing with the Omars.]

Are we really going to believe an anti-Semitic congressional member's daughter who attends a $90,000-a-year university, where she might be majoring in Marxism doesn't have any other options? 

The poor gal said that when she sought help from administration staff at Barnard, she heard crickets.

“I sent them an email like, ‘Hey, I rely on campus for my meals, I rely on my dining plan,’ and they were like, Oh, you can come pick up a prepackaged bag of food, a full 48 hours after I was suspended,” she like said. “There was no food support, no nothing.”

Hirsi would go on to tell [Commie] Teen Vogue that she was held for all of eight hours after being arrested, accusing the police of inhumane treatment. They denied her Uber Eats, a private cell with TV, a gym, and of course, her cell phone.

I hope she had her pussy hat with her.



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Biden's handlers ward off press, internet explodes

President-ish Joe Biden was at an event in Saginaw, Michigan on Thursday and when the press tried to ask him questions which he agreed to take, his handlers whisked him away to avoid having him display his full-blown dementia. 

Biden was trying to push his re-election campaign and speak to volunteers who would vote for a Democrat even if the candidate was declared brain dead. I'm not saying Joe Biden is fully brain dead, but there aren't a lot of neurons firing up there in the old noggin. The trip to Saginaw also included a visit to a 131-year-old Victorian mansion owned by members of the Saginaw City Council and Saginaw Public Schools Board of Education.

As he stood on the porch of the mansion with his back to the press, he was heard saying, "Can I take a couple questions?"

A woman in a Biden-Harris jacket, who may have once played the part of an Easter bunny said, "We're going to take a few questions," whereupon staff immediately started putting their arms up and walking toward the press gaggle, loudly repeating, "Thank you, press, back to the cars."

A video of the occurrence was posted on X and a myriad of comments blasting Biden’s team followed

Stephen L. Miller, contributing editor at The Spectator called the video, an "amazing clip," adding, "'We're going to take a few questions.' Not in front of the journalists... back to the cars guys," Miller said.

Grateful Calvin, a freelancer for Twitchy, said, "You know the words by now… 'This is fine. He's fine. Everything is fine.'"

"The moment Biden suggests taking a few questions, his handlers come flying in like Secret Service agents taking a bullet, yelling at the press to get back in their cars," Bonchie, a writer for the conservative blog Red State said. "What an incredible scene."

"This is bad. Really bad. They’ve told his staff not to let him open his mouth. Trump would’ve walked out and spoke spontaneously for an hour," another Red State contributor, Buzz Patterson, reacted.

Biden's Saginaw appearance came after stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. He is trying to convince people that he's fully sentient but many aren't buying it. After he made his State of the Union tirade last week, he's hoping to show voters that he's just a regular guy with blond hair on his legs that kids love to rub by the pool when Cornpop isn't around to cause trouble that Joe needs to assuage.

And he likes it when kids rub his legs.

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A Shawarma joint opened in Jordan: you'll never believe the name

Would you like to supersize that order?

Go to Amman Jordon and if you're Jewish, leave your Kippah [Jewish skull cap, aka yarmulke] at home to avoid offending the townsfolk. Check out the Middle East cuisine--it's really tasty and not very expensive. 

You might also want to check out a new restaurant in town. They call it "October 7." 

[H/T Robert Spencer, Red State]

If you've been awake since that date, you must be familiar with it. That's the day the Hamasshole jihadis invaded Israel by air, land and sea, and went on a bloody spree in which they mass murdered Israelis, raped, mutilated, burned and beheaded Jews, including women, children and even babies. The attack left 1,200 Israelis dead. They also took about 240 hostages who they gang raped, hacked off breasts and threw them around like a ball, and slaughtered a number of them for sport.

So if you decide not to go to Amman, Jew, Christian or otherwise, I don't blame you.

It's ironic that we are telling Israel to ceasefire; to stop the killing of "innocent" civilians, some who killed hostages that were placed with them, and 98 percent of whom are virulently anti-Semitic because it's part of their religion and how they've been taught. It's ironic to think that the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Second World War and killed thousands upon thousands of civilians outright, while others died of radiation poisoning later on. [The chart below depicts the numbers.]

And in the same bloody war, the U.S. along with Britain, bombed the crap out of Dresden, the Capital of the German state of Saxony. We flew four raids between February 13 and 15, 1945 and killed as many as 25,000 people. 

Like Israel, we warned the Japanese about the impending bombing, but unlike the Israelis, we didn't drop "roof-knock bombs" to show them we meant business. And now the United States along with the UN anti-Zionist members, are pointing fingers at the most moral armed forces to ever exist. 

How freaking ironic.

But the real irony is the fact that a recent survey showed that only 5% of Arabs surveyed rejected what Hamas did on October 7.  Most Muslims in the Middle East, along with many US and UK college students, are all in for the Hamassholes.

It's hard to fathom how the Biden administration and much of the West has the audacity to point fingers at Israel, a nation in an existential battle to exist, after what they did to gain peace in the world, if only temporary.

Imagine if the US or UK opened a restaurant and called it the Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Sure the bombings of both cities ended the war rather quickly, but imagine if we celebrated their deaths like Hamas, Hezbollah and the overwhelmingly large proportion of Arabs in the Middle East.

It's only the Jews who do wrong. Jews whom Allah transformed into apes and pigs for their disobedience according to the Qur'an (2:63-66; 5:59-60; 7:166). 

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The Deep State has a plan to deal with Trump

Biden has nothing to show for his term as President. In fact, some say [like me] that he's not running the show and is actually an 'alleged' president, or a 'so called' president. He is down in the polls and the Democrats are desperate to do something.

Former President Donald Trump is by far the leading candidate for the GOP so the left is doing the "threat to democracy," "he's no different than Hitler" schtick. They have to do this because they have nothing to show for their time in leadership other than porn in the schools, two serious wars, incredibly high inflation, a President who craps his pants in front of the Pope and who is as confused as a pedophile in Boys' Town. 

Biden is a total failure but the left cannot admit it so they go after Trump.

The Red State reported that the Democrat powers that be are trying to do something about the Donald, as per an NBC revealed. According to an NBC report, they worry that if Trump wins the presidency they don't know what he will do so "a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers is quietly devising plans to try to foil any efforts to expand presidential power, which could include pressuring the military to cater to his political needs."

Boys and girls, can you say 'paranoia'?

According to the NBC report, these people are quietly studying Trump's past behavior and his 2024 policy positions in order to be ready should he win this November. They are ready to take legal action and threaten Trump's appointees if they undermine constitutional norms--something the Democrats believe is only their right to do.

“We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to,” said Mary McCord, executive director of the Institution for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law.

McCord must be referring to actions like using the DOJ to prosecute only those who don't follow the President's narrative--oh wait--that wasn't Trump. Perhaps she is referring to calling for military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen without going through Congress--oh dang--that wasn't Trump.

This garbage needs to stop right now. Trump may or may not win, but if he does get elected, those unelected scumcrumpets better not interfere with the workings of government.

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Biden almost walks into Brazilian flag and forgot who he was addressing

"Who put that damn flag in my way?"

On Wednesday our so called President Joe Biden had a no good, very bad day again. It seems as if all the days left in his life have been pretty bad, but that day was really bad after he nearly knocked over the Brazilian flag and obviously angered President Lula da Silva as he stiffly shuffled off stage without even shaking his hand, and just left him standing there. [H/T Red State] Thankfully, Biden didn't fall on his face this time, but the impression he made was not to the nation's benefit.

As time went on, Biden's "sundowner syndrome" became apparent at the evening fundraiser. He reportedly repeated the same story, almost verbatim, which wasn't the best look at a fundraiser where people are supposed to reach into their pockets and give him money.

What Joe really needs isn't money, it's an investigation, but that's a pig of a different color.

The next day, old Joe met with John Fetterman fan the Ukrainian dictator President Volodymyr Zelensky who was all decked out in olive drab utility jacket and trousers. When Biden spoke, he clearly slurred his words as has been his normal way of speaking during his presidency.

Zelensky had the collection plate out as he appealed for still more money for Ukraine and Biden read his notes and gladly agreed to pour out billions of taxpayer's money "for as long as we have to" which is never defined.

The statements Biden made were cookie-cutter political talk, yet he still needed to go to his notes, as RNC Research pointed out:

Biden reads his pre-written remarks directly from his note card as he meets with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office pic.twitter.com/X4qMCtzK4Z— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 21, 2023

During the meeting, the alleged president incessantly repeated the word "partners" for no apparent reason:

BIDEN: "Together with 29 other partners. Partners. Partners, partners, and their partners..." pic.twitter.com/sQ5k14UeKX— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 21, 2023

Comrade Samantha Power goes all in, nods like a bobblehead doll while pretending this is normal. You know by looking at LGBTQ+1 appointee Jake Sullivan's face that he knows it's not. He's blinking, looking down, and looking as uncomfortable as an anxious bomb defuser with late stage Parkinson's.

But wait; it gets worse.

While at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute for their 46th Annual Gala, Biden referred to them as the Congressional Black Caucus. It's easy to see how he gets them confused as he tends to lump both groups in together as high school dropouts.

"The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values," Biden says as he addresses the Congressional Hispanic Caucus pic.twitter.com/CHszryHtsK— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 22, 2023

And when the White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Affirmative Action Pierre is asked about Biden's obvious cognitive decline [aka crash] she attacks the questioner. 

Biden can't stay on track with simply reading what his handler[s] orders him to read. He goes off script and manages to reveal his dementia for all the world to see. The Democrats and the press try to cover up for him but it's becoming increasingly more difficult to hide it.

Biden should not be allowed to run for a second term and his wife, Doctor Jill Biden, should be charged with elder abuse.

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