This Leak Just SHOCKED Trump...

Well folks, it just keeps getting worse by the day. Donald Trump's obsession with his pet projects in DC continues to get weirder. And we now have a new leak on his latest fixation in DC. And man, oh man, it's not good. We're gonna talk about all of that and more in this video. Please make sure to subscribe down below. Drop a like on the video, comment. Let me know what you think about this story and let's dive in. Of course, we're talking about the Kennedy Center. Over the past like week or so, maybe two weeks, Donald Trump has been laser focused on this. Not an affordability, not on the economy, not on anything other than the Kennedy Center. He wants his name on the building. And if he doesn't get his name on the building, he's gonna knock it down. That's how childish this guy is. But we're now learning that Trump Goons secret plot to purge the treasured gifts within the Kennedy Center has been leaked and it is incredibly concerning. I mean, these are the people or the people running the Kennedy Center. And it's something that I think the American people should know about. This is what they're doing behind the scenes, hoping that you won't talk about it. It's X Kennedy Center boss Richard Grinnell, who is very much still in the Trump orbit. He's super mega appointed by Trump. Secretly tried to dump valuable gifts from the Performing Arts Center to replace them with mega approved art. So these beautiful paintings, statues, whatever else is in the Kennedy Center, they wanted to replace that with like photos or paintings of Donald Trump because that's what people wanna say, right? These people are losers. Grinnell, the former head of the Kennedy Center who Trump fired in March, wanted to replace the center's art collection which includes gifts from foreign nations to honor Kennedy with art handpicked by Trump patrons according to The New York Times. Late last year, during Grinnell's tenure, a proposal was circulated by Kennedy Center officials. Again, all these people appointed by Trump. The first page of which included details about a de-assession of artwork that may include disposal via the following means. Return to country of origin, transfer or exchange with another institution, public sale or destruction. Because apparently, in their minds, it's a good idea to destroy the beautiful art within the Kennedy Center, just to destroy it and then replace it with like a photo, a painting of Donald Trump putting his fist up in the air. We mean we've seen the art that Donald Trump has in the White House and the Oval Office. It's gross and that's what they wanted the Kennedy Center to look like and that's Richard Grinnell, by the way. Another memo circulated by Kennedy Center officials said the Performing Arts Center could get rid of outdated or inappropriate artwork and replace them with works that reflect shared American values. Now their shared American values is loving Trump. So one of the displays I bet you any money would be like a MAGA hat, because that is apparently shared American values. In one email, Grinnell wrote to Joseph Palermo, a curator, he hired, that he was permitted to unload the art. Quote, you can definitely start sending stuff back to the countries who donated it now, figure out everything you don't want and just send it back ASAP. So they were trying to do this really, really quickly so people wouldn't notice. Palermo was fired about a month after Grinnell was canned and he has maintained that he was not for getting rid of the artwork. Grinnell asserted in an interview with the Times that he did not discuss art with Trump, okay? And the sky is green and explained that in his email, what I instructed Joseph to do was to go back to every gifted piece of art and tell the giver, thank you very much for returning the art. So he was in favor of getting rid of it. What the hell is this guy talking about? Okay, whatever. He also said he was focused on returning art that had been in need of repair, which he claimed the Kennedy Center could not afford. Still, the plan shows that more than 20 pieces of art were targeted, including blue and outdoor sculpture that was taken away from the property last month without public notice. I've seen this statue when I was in DC. It was beautiful, great part of the Kennedy Center and they moved it because, well, it doesn't honor Donald Trump. It's not MAGA enough, it's blue, which of course is the Democratic Party's color. It's not red like the Republican Party's color or MAGA or whatever it is, but this is part of the long running destruction of the Kennedy Center under Donald Trump. This has not happened overnight. This has been something that Trump has been focusing on since day one of his administration. Like, for example, all the way back in February of 2025. So February 8th, specifically, less than a month into Donald Trump's second term. He already named himself Chairman of the Kennedy Center, dictating programming and was appointing other Trump loyalists to the board of the Kennedy Center. They're like Fox News hosts who sit on the board of the Kennedy Center now because of Donald Trump. So this has been something that's been in the works. It started with him naming himself as the chair, but also checked this out. Trump installed gold bathroom fixtures at the Kennedy Center, kind of reshaping it in his image. He loves to stuff gold everywhere and he had already started doing that at the Kennedy Center. Just watch this. - Donald Trump is putting gold bathroom fixtures in the presidential suite of the Kennedy Center that only he can see. It's for him. And he's even gonna put gold little outlet covers for electrical outlets there 'cause it's pretty. I went the other day by the way. This is what the suite looks like. There are three presidential suites. This one interestingly had no pictures of Melania. Trump claims the White House is paying for it, but you know who's really paying for it, you and me. The Kennedy Center is America's premier cultural forum here in Washington, DC. Donald Trump took over as Chairman and immediately changed the name to put his name on it. A judge recently took it off. The tarp is still here hiding that. But Trump has been making changes there, including putting gold everywhere, but also tile. He didn't like the tile on the bathroom. It was approved by the White House interior designer, but Trump didn't like the tile. So they paid to have the tile changed. Because Donald Trump didn't like the color. This is reminiscent of the story from the White House, some of the flooring outside the West Wing. Donald Trump wanted a different color marble. He wanted black or something. So he got black instead and said, but don't worry, you're not paying for it. I'm paying for it. Yeah, we paid for it. $600,000 billed to the American taxpayer. He did the same thing with the East Wing of the White House. Remember, I'm tearing it down and doing a ballroom. No one's paying for it, private sector. I'm going to pay whatever the help. $1.4 billion, you and me, baby. We're paying for it. Damn right, we're paying for it. We're paying for all of this stuff. And of course, as part of the deterioration of the Kennedy Center, as the gentleman just referenced, the name changed. Donald Trump really tried to make it the Donald J. Trump and JFK Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Not just the John of Kennedy Center for performing arts, because, of course, he asked to put his name on everything. And the Kennedy Center has also been hosting events such as a one-a-speech, a CPAC summit, focused on ending Christian persecution. Now, Christians are not persecuted in the United States, at least systemically not in the government or anything close to that. The majority of our government are Christians. They fall within that denomination over their Catholics or whatever it is. They're not persecuted, right? It's not even close, but they're holding these conservative events at the Kennedy Center and reshaping it in their image. This has been a long-running thing. And because of this, ticket sales have plummeted, because why would anybody want to go sit in Donald Trump's Kennedy Center and willingly partake in this hostile takeover and is authoritarian movements here, where he's just trying to put his name on everything and give himself a statue if he wants a statue. Check out some of these numbers that are really, really bad for Donald Trump. Nearly nine months after Trump became chair of the center in more than a month into its main season, ticket sales for the Kennedy Center's three largest performance venues are the worst they've been in years, in early September, 43% of tickets remain unsolved for the typical production. That means that at most, 57% of tickets were sold for the typical production and some tickets may have been comps, which are given away often to staff members or the press. That compares with 93% sold or comped in fall of 2024 and 80% in fall of 2023. Those are Joe Biden's numbers. And they're not even Joe Biden's numbers because he didn't try to interfere with the Kennedy Center. He just let it be, like it should be. And he let the experts handle it, who were normal people that sat on the board, but not obviously what Donald Trump is doing. And then of course, people have tried to stand up to Donald Trump, judges ruling that, "Hey, you can't put your name on the building, "you can't knock it down just because you want to." A judge has said that, another judge has said that, that's been written into federal court orders. And then in response to that, Donald Trump targeted them. Targeted them, their families, they started getting threats and whatnot. And he is saying things like the board of the Kennedy Center today agreed, and this was recently, actually, September 15th, almost unanimously, to close the building for safety reasons and that the process of reconstruction can begin. The closing will take place immediately. However, the renovation reconstruction, which is very large in a complex job, cannot begin until such time as the DC circuit rules on the board's approved name. That being his name in addition. If the ruling is a negative one, which it should be and which it will be, which it should not be, and is not overturned by the US Supreme Court, which this ruling has already happened. The Supreme Court is going to maybe have a say. The reconstruction and the renovation of the Kennedy Center will not take place. The attorneys from the DOJ will ask for an expedited appeal in the meantime, $17 million. Raised by Donald Trump has been put into the center, account to keep it afloat. Thank you for your attention to this matter. He's also thinking about outright destroying it as we've been talking about in this video and on the show before. This photo was taken of him the other day by Yeti. He was on Air Force One. He didn't know this photo was being taken. And he was seen holding a poster board that said something along the lines of Kennedy Center demolish. It says maybe demolish or demolish. Who knows what the full word is. It's obviously in that big red lettering so Donald Trump can read it. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. And he was holding some poster board that said something along the lines of the Kennedy Center getting destroyed. He seems kind of insistent on that. And of course, he's also insistent saying I think I should be recognized for saving the Kennedy Center. He did not save it, not even close. It didn't need saving, at least in the way that Donald Trump views it. And now we're just in this really weird spot. But they literally tried to purge the Kennedy Center of its art, of the things that had been given to us by foreign countries. It's gross. And it needs to be talked about. So I will leave the video there. I just wanted to bring this to your attention. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know what you think about this story, and everything we just talked about. Have an amazing rest of your day, and we will talk soon.