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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Over the weekend, The Kennedy Center director claimed his X account was hacked… and that’s why his original tweet announcing ITS decision to end its partnership with the Washington National Opera was taken down. Richard Grenell was not happy with the media headlines that all read the Opera was leaving the Kennedy Center, making it the biggest departure yet in a growing number of artists who have cancelled shows or boycotted the center under Trump’s leadership. Many have commented it appears Grenell has found another excuse to blame hackers and the media for the fallout from Trump’s takeover.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.8 | It is Monday, January 12th and a story developing over the weekend and into this Monday morning. |
| 0:22.9 | It has everything to do with a situation you've certainly been through in your life. |
| 0:27.9 | Ever had a breakup and you think everything was cool, but then you find out the person you broke |
| 0:32.4 | up with is going around telling everybody that they were the one that dumped you, |
| 0:37.3 | and then you come back and try to |
| 0:39.6 | correct the record yeah that thing is happening between the kennedy center and the washington |
| 0:45.4 | national opera and with that welcome to this episode of amy and tj and robs the story gets |
| 0:51.0 | weirder because you think why why is this a big deal? |
| 0:55.1 | Who needs to take credit? |
| 0:56.1 | Who dumped whom? |
| 0:56.9 | Who cares? |
| 0:57.5 | Well, apparently the head of the Kennedy Center cares enough and has, I shouldn't say |
| 1:02.8 | concocted, but has told us a wild story having to do even with his Twitter account |
| 1:09.0 | being hacked. |
| 1:09.9 | Yes, folks, that's how we're getting |
| 1:11.0 | started on this early Monday with this developing story. That's right. Richard Grinnell, who is the |
| 1:16.3 | director of the Trump Kennedy Center, has said that... We need to make a decision. What are we going |
| 1:22.4 | to call it moving forward? We can say the Kennedy Center, but I said it that way because that's how he |
| 1:27.4 | refers to his title. |
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