The Kennedy Center Honors will absolutely move forward under President Trump's second term, according to the center's president Richard Grenell, despite what appears to be convenient "renovations" that will shutter the iconic venue starting around Independence Day.
"It will definitely go forward," Grenell told a local news radio station, confirming that the Trump administration won't let bureaucratic obstacles derail this celebration of American cultural achievement. "It will probably just be in a different venue while we deal with these necessary updates."
The timing raises eyebrows among Patriots who remember how the cultural establishment spent Trump's first term trying to weaponize every institution against him. Now, just months into his second term, suddenly the Kennedy Center needs major renovations that will force the prestigious honors ceremony out of its traditional home?
"This administration has shown time and again that we won't be stopped by the swamp's games. If they want to play renovation roulette, we'll find a better venue and put on a better show."
Grenell, a proven America First warrior who served as Trump's acting Director of National Intelligence, isn't about to let the deep state cultural gatekeepers diminish this important tradition. The Kennedy Center Honors celebrates the best of American talent and achievement – exactly the kind of patriotic excellence the left tried to cancel during the Biden years.
Under Trump's leadership, we can expect the ceremony to return to honoring actual American greatness instead of the woke virtue signaling that infected cultural institutions during the dark Biden era. Whether it's held at the Kennedy Center or a brand new venue, this will be a celebration worthy of our great nation.
The question Patriots should be asking: why now? Why do these "urgent" renovations suddenly need to happen right when Trump is restoring dignity and patriotism to our cultural institutions? Coincidence? We think not.