'Bizarre moves' behind Trump's decision to shutter Kennedy Center revealed

Ex-Kennedy Center staffer alleges cronyism under Trump

Unless courts intervene, the Kennedy Center will shut down this July for two years, as part of a roughly $250 million renovation. In the lead-up, there’s been a wave of layoffs and a controversial rebranding by President Trump’s allies. Josef Palermo was among those laid off and wrote “What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center” for The Atlantic. Palermo joined Geoff Bennett to discuss more.

Trump's Kennedy Center Threatened to Rename Israeli Lounge at Oct. 7 Fundraiser Event, Former Curator Says

The former director for Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center Richard Grenell reportedly threatened to rename the Israeli Lounge during an Oct. 7 event, telling the “mostly Jewish audience” that corporate donors would take interest in the historic space if they didn’t ante up. The Kennedy Center’s first curator of visual arts and special programming Josef Palermo recounted Grenell’s alleged remarks in an in the “The Atlantic” on Thursday titled, “What I…

Insider Exposes Trump’s Staggering Kennedy Center Grift

A former staffer shares what it was like to work at the institution as the president destroyed it.

Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatened to rename Israel room: report

The message ‘struck many of us in the room as inappropriate,’ a former Kennedy Center curator wrote

Ex-Kennedy Center staffer alleges chaos and cronyism under Trump leadership

Unless courts intervene, the Kennedy Center will shut down this July for two years, as part of a roughly $250 million renovation. In the lead-up, there’s been a wave of layoffs and a controversial rebranding by President Trump’s allies. Josef Palermo was among those laid off and wrote “What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center” for The Atlantic. Palermo joined Geoff Bennett to discuss more.

Kennedy Center Staff Open Up About a Year of Turmoil

As firings at the Kennedy Center became frequent, staffers began to use the encrypted chat application Signal, building an underground information network out of fear that management was monitoring internal messages on Microsoft Teams There, they shared job leads, pieced together what official channels wouldn’t say, and tracked who had been let go. Cathleen O’Malley,