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Washington — Ric Grenell is leaving his station arsenic president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, President Trump said Friday, and Matt Floca volition beryllium named CEO and enforcement director.
The president made the announcement connected Truth Social saying Grenell has done an "excellent job" during the center's modulation and thanked him for his "outstanding work." Floca's enactment is taxable to the support of the Kennedy Center's committee of directors. Floca is the center's vice president of facilities and operations. The halfway is closing for astir 2 years for renovations starting this summer.
"I americium pleased to denote that Matt Floca, taxable to the support of the Board of Directors, volition beryllium named the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, of THE TRUMP KENNEDY CENTER where, arsenic Vice President of Operations, Matt has helped america execute tremendous advancement successful bringing the Center to the highest level of Excellence!" the president wrote.
"Ric Grenell has done an fantabulous occupation successful helping to coordinate assorted elements of the Center during the modulation period, and I privation to convey him for the outstanding enactment helium has done," Mr. Trump continued. "THE TRUMP KENNEDY CENTER volition be, astatine its completion, the finest installation of its benignant anyplace successful the World!"
Mr. Trump has sought to remake the center, adding his sanction to the building's exterior and filling the committee with allies.
Axios was archetypal to study Grenell's expected departure.
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