Recently, Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha attended a concert at the Kennedy Center in D.C. When they sat down in their box seats overlooking the audience, they were loudly booed by the audience.

The audience was doubtless reacting to Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center, purging its leaders and replacing every Democrat on the bipartisan Board with a Republican. He named himself as chairman of the Board, thus ensuring that no artist would dare to insult him as others had done in the past. Trump complained about “woke” performances, but admitted he never attended the Kennedy Center. Several artists cancelled their performances, as did the celebrated multiracial Broadway show “Hamilton.”

Trump’s hand-picked acting Director of the Kennedy Center is Richard Grennell, who has no experience in the arts but served as Trump’s Ambassador to Germany.

When Grennell heard that VP Vance had been loudly booed, he issued a statement on Twitter.

The New York Times wrote:

Richard Grenell, whom Mr. Trump named as the center’s new president, posted on social media on Friday morning that the video showing Mr. Vance being booed “should challenge us all to commit to making the Kennedy Center a place where everyone is welcomed.”

“It troubles me to see that so many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views,” he wrote. “Diversity is our strength. We must do better. We must welcome EVERYONE. We will not allow the Kennedy Center to be an intolerant place.”

The Washington Post reported that Grennell sent an email to the Kennedy Center staff:

On Friday morning, Richard Grenell, an ally of President Donald Trump made interim president of the Kennedy Center by Trump’s new board of trustees, sent an email to the center’s staff, reviewed by The Washington Post, stating that he “received several messages from Kennedy Center staffers sharing their embarrassment over more than a few Symphony patrons loudly booing the Vice President and his wife last night.”

“As the premier Arts organization in the United States of America, we must work to make the Kennedy Center a place where everyone is welcomed,” Grenell wrote. “We clearly have work to do. And I hear your outrage.”

He cited the center’s diversity as a strength. “As President, I take diversity and inclusion very seriously,” he wrote. “I have met with many of you, and I love that we are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, agnostic, gay, straight, black, white, Hispanic and absolutely different.

WHAT?

Doesn’t he know that Trump banned “diversity” and “inclusion”?

Doesn’t he know that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed all literature that said “Diversity is our strength”?

Why was Gremnell complaining about an audience in which “so many…appear to be white”? Many Black performers have cancelled their appearances at the Kennedy Center because of Trump’s unprecedented takeover and his harsh attacks on diversity and inclusion.

Reading this was a laugh-out-loud moment.