{"id":2324230,"date":"2026-03-12T04:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2324230"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:26:40","slug":"gene-simmons-says-celebrities-should-shut-the-f-up-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gene-simmons-says-celebrities-should-shut-the-f-up-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons Says Celebrities Should \u201cShut the F*** Up\u201d About Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gene Simmons<\/a>, the frontman of Kiss<\/a>, is tired of hearing celebrities\u2019 opinions on politics.<\/p>\n

The rocker was recently asked by TMZ for his thoughts on stars who are outspoken about their criticism of Donald Trump<\/a>, such as Ben Stiller<\/a>, who recently called out the president after the White House used a clip of his 2008 movie Tropic Thunder in an Iran war propaganda video.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody in the world should listen to what actors and comedians say, because they\u2019re so qualified,\u201d Simmons<\/a> responded sarcastically before adding in a more serious tone, \u201cBasically, shut the fuck up. Do your art and shut up. Nobody\u2019s interested in their opinions. That includes me, who I vote for, who I like,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cWho the fuck do you think you are?\u201d<\/p>\n

The musician continued, \u201cPeople in America work hard for their living, and they don\u2019t want to be lectured to by people who…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gene Simmons, the frontman of Kiss, is tired of hearing celebrities\u2019 opinions on politics. The rocker was recently asked by TMZ for his thoughts on stars who are outspoken about their criticism of Donald Trump, such as Ben Stiller, who recently called out the president after the White House used a clip of his 2008 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2324230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gene-Simmons-Says-Celebrities-Should-Shut-the-F-Up-About.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324232,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324230\/revisions\/2324232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}