Richard Grenell, interim president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, said the institution is moving away from what he called “woke propaganda” that drained its finances and is replacing it with programming designed to appeal to broad audiences.
“We have never canceled a single show,” Grenell told Newsmax’s Jason Mattera in an interview from CPAC Paraguay on Friday. “What we have done is require shows to either fill enough seats to pay their bill, get a sponsor to make up the difference, or pay the bill themselves. We cannot have programming that loses money.”
Grenell said that before President Donald Trump took office and control of the center, naming him as interim president, the facility was in a financial free fall.
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