The personnel swap comes nearly three months after Trump’s handpicked board of trustees voted to add his name to the Kennedy Center, and a little more than a month since the president’s jaw-dropping announcement that he plans to shut down the building for two years to overhaul it. These were political shocks, and to some people, they were also moral ones: Why was the president so obsessed with a concert venue? Was he trying to kill the National Symphony Orchestra? For a year, the face of these controversies was Grenell, who defended them loudly, especially on X.