Matt Floca，现任设施运营副总裁，将接替Grenell担任这一表演艺术中心负责人，该中心将暂停活动两年
作者：Leo Briceno
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2026年3月13日 美国东部时间晚上7:40发布
周五下午，在唐纳德·特朗普总统通过Truth Social发布公告后，特朗普肯尼迪中心（Trump Kennedy Center）新总裁揭晓。
这一变动将于周一正式宣布，届时特朗普肯尼迪中心董事会将召开会议，正式暂停其活动并启动建设工作。
Grenell拥有外交政策背景，除担任特使职务外，于去年2月接管了该中心。他将由特朗普肯尼迪中心现任设施运营副总裁Matt Floca取代。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统在华盛顿特区参观约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心期间，与肯尼迪中心董事会主席Richard Grenell一同向媒体讲话（Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images）
一位了解Grenell想法的人士表示，此次过渡是该组织转向以建设为重点的结果，与特朗普总统去年2月初在社交媒体帖子中概述的计划一致。
“我已确定，让特朗普肯尼迪中心达到最高水平的成功、美感和宏伟的最快方式，是在大约两年的时间内停止娱乐运营，”特朗普上月在Truth Social的帖子中表示。
消息人士补充说，特朗普肯尼迪中心领导层的变动反映了该组织目前的重点。
“我的意思是，整个中心正在变成一个建筑工地，”消息人士说，”这将是一个建筑工地，而[Ric]不是搞建筑的人。”
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特朗普还在网上强调了Floca的新任命。
“作为运营副总裁，Matt帮助我们在将中心提升至卓越水平方面取得了巨大进展！7月4日庆祝活动后，特朗普肯尼迪中心的全面重建将开始，”特朗普写道。
他继续称赞Grenell在行政职位上的表现：”Ric Grenell在过渡期间协调中心各元素的工作做得非常出色，我要感谢他所做的出色工作。”
肯尼迪中心滨水外观，华盛顿特区，日期不详（Hulton Archive/Getty Images）
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根据去年特朗普标志性的”大美丽法案”中国会批准的数字，翻新工程预计耗资2.57亿美元。
Grenell拒绝对其下一步角色的询问作出回应。
Leo Briceno是福克斯新闻数字版国会团队的政治记者。他此前曾是《世界杂志》的记者。
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Trump Kennedy Center’s new leader revealed as Ric Grenell exits top role
Matt Floca, current vice president of facilities operations, will replace Grenell as the performing arts center suspends activities for two years
By Leo Briceno
Fox News
Published March 13, 2026 7:40pm EDT
Ric Grenell’s successor as the president of the Trump Kennedy Center was revealed Friday afternoon after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make the announcement.
The change will officially be announced on Monday as the Trump Kennedy Center’s board meets to officially suspend its activities and launch construction efforts.
Grenell, who has a background in foreign policy and assumed control of the center in February of last year in addition to his special envoy role, is being replaced by Matt Floca, the Trump Kennedy Center’s current vice president of facilities operations.
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media alongside Richard Grenell, president of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, during a guided tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts before leading a board meeting March 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A person familiar with Grenell’s thinking said the transition was a result of the construction-focused shift for the organization and consistent with plans President Donald Trump outlined in posts to social media at the beginning of February.
“I have determined that the fastest way to bring the Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of success, beauty and grandeur is to cease entertainment operations for an approximately two-year period of time,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social last month.
The source added that the change in the Trump Kennedy Center’s leadership is reflective of the organization’s focus for the time being.
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2025.(Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
“I mean the whole thing is turning into a construction zone,” the source said. “It’s going to be a construction zone and [Ric is] not a construction guy.”
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Trump also highlighted Floca’s new appointment online.
“As Vice President of Operations, Matt has helped us achieve tremendous progress in bringing the Center to the highest level of Excellence! A Complete Reconstruction of THE TRUMP KENNEDY CENTER will begin after the July 4th Celebration,” Trump wrote.
He went on to praise Grenell’s performance in the executive role, saying, “Ric Grenell has done an excellent job in helping to coordinate various elements of the Center during the transition period, and I want to thank him for the outstanding work he has done.”
Exterior of the Kennedy Center on the Potomac River, Washington, D.C., undated.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The renovations are slated to cost $257 million, according to figures approved by Congress in Trump’s signature Big Beautiful Bill last year.
Grenell declined to respond to inquiries about what his next role would be.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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