The man President Donald Trump installed to execute his hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center for the Arts has been accused of being absent from the job.

Ric Grenell, a former Trump ambassador to Germany and longtime Republican attack dog, is “only occasionally at the Kennedy Center,” a source told CBS News.

However, his alleged lack of presence at the Kennedy Center hasn’t stopped him from collecting a salary of $175,000, per tax records.

His salary is significantly less than that of the previous president, Deborah Rutter, who earned $1.3 million in 2023, before Trump fired her and replaced with Grenell.

While in charge of the Kennedy Center, Grenell is also serving in the State Department as a Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, a role that President Trump created for

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