Whereas asserting the recipients of the 2025 Kennedy Heart Honors on Wednesday, Donald Trump proudly touted that he was “98% concerned” within the choice course of,” including that “he turned down lots — I had a few wokesters.” Nonetheless, Trump apparently had no problem with (or was fully unaware of) previous detrimental feedback about him made by KISS members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley,
Whereas Simmons was typically supportive of Trump early on in his first time period, he turned on him following the January sixth riot and illegitimate claims of voter fraud. “I knew him earlier than he entered politics. Look what that gentleman did to this nation and the polarization — received all of the cockroaches to rise to the highest. As soon as upon a time, you had been embarrassed to be publicly racist and on the market with conspiracy theories. Now it’s all out within the open as a result of he allowed it,” Simmons mentioned in an interview with SPIN in Might 2022.
“I don’t suppose he’s a Republican or a Democrat,” Simmons added of Trump. “He’s out for himself, any manner you may get there. And within the final election, over 70 million folks purchased it hook, line and sinker.” Simmons was additionally an advocate of COVID-19 vaccines and different precautions, and criticized Trump’s dealing with of the pandemic.
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Within the lead up the 2024 election, Stanley referred to as Trump “a real hazard to democracy” and a “mob boss.” On January sixth, he referred to as the people who stormed the US Capitol, “TERRORISTS,” including that, “That is armed riot. The flames had been fanned as we speak & over time by the president & particular senators who CANNOT be allowed now to distance from or denounce what they’ve instantly precipitated. Know their names. THIS is the results of their deception. Disgrace.”
It’s unclear whether or not Trump was conscious of those feedback, or just unfazed by them. Both manner, on Wednesday, he named KISS recipients of the 2025 Kennedy Heart Honors alongside nation singer George Strait, Rocky star Sylvester Stallone, Broadway actor Michael Crawford, and disco legend Gloria Gaynor.