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Stick a fork in it. The Kennedy Center, which has hemorrhaged subscribers, performing artists and reputational capital since Donald Trump’s power grab, is now ready to jettison its workforce.

Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell made that clear when he sent an email to staff on February 10, warning them that “skeletal crews” will be kept on the payroll during reconstruction of the facility over the next two years. Skeletons watching over the carcass of the Kennedy Center.

Trump has denied that he is ripping down the Kennedy Center because he is using some of its steel and marble. “It’ll be brand new and really beautiful,” he told reporters earlier this month.

And that paves the way for deleting the Kennedy name from the brand new building. The Kennedy Center, which was originally to be called “The National Cultural Center,” was designed as a living memorial to the slain 35th president.

That facility no longer exists. New building, new name. All hail the Donald J. Trump Center for the American Arts.

AIPAC shoots self in foot. The victory of progressive Analilia Mejia in the Jersey Democratic primary was “an anticipated possibility,” said Patrick Dorton, CEO of Rational 360.

He represents the super PAC of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that poured more than $2M into the primary to defeat former Congressman Tom Malinowski who apparently is not pro-Israel enough.

His offense was not promising to support Israel “unconditionally, unquestionably, blindly.” That sounds about right.

Mejia, who was one of 11 candidates in the race, beat the favored Malinowski by about 900 votes.

AIPAC’s United Democracy Project had blistered Malinowski with negative ads, centered on his support for funding ICE during Trump’s first term. The spots did not mention Israel.

The hope was that another candidate in the race, such as Jersey’s lieutenant governor Tehesha Way, would benefit from the attacks on Malinowsky.

Instead, Mejia took the prize. She was the only candidate in the race who believes Israel committed genocide in Gaza.

Mejia is expected to become a member in good standing of “the squad.” Squad leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned for Mejia in Jersey.

AIPAC misfired very badly.

Walking the red carpet…. Ancora Holdings Group is rooting for Paramount Skydance over Netflix in the battle for control of Warner Bros Discovery.

In its www.MaximizeWBDValue.com presentation, Ancora features quotes from Jane Fonda and Ben Stiller in its

She called WBD’s acceptance of the Netflix bid “an alarming escalation of the consolidations that threatens the entire entertainment industry, the democratic public it serves and the First Amendment itself.”

He said though deal is unimportant in the grand scheme of life and death issues, culturally it will have a huge impact on the future of movies, if one values the experience of going to a theater and seeing movers projected on a big screen.

Ancora believes WBD deserves a Hollywood and not a Silicon Valley ending.

Don’t blame us. Trump blamed a staffer for posting the racist video depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, which is a savvy way for deflecting attention for his refusal to apologize for video.

Similarly, JD Vance blamed a staffer for posting that his visit to a memorial in Armenia that honored the 1.5M people murdered by Ottoman solders more than a century ago was “to honor victims of the Armenian genocide.”

Up until Joe Biden, US officials avoided the word “genocide” in describing the massacre to avoid angering NATO ally Turkey.

JD’s abandonment of the Armenians and appeasement of the Turks didn’t sit well on the home front.

“Vance is a coward for deleting the post,” said Alex Galitsky, policy director of the Armenian National Committee of America. Deletion of the post is “an insult to the memory” of those who had die, he added. It also renders Vance’s trip to the memorial as a meaningless gesture.