{"id":2578677,"date":"2026-03-11T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gene-simmons-tells-celebrities-shut-the-f-up-about-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:15:36","slug":"gene-simmons-tells-celebrities-shut-the-f-up-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gene-simmons-tells-celebrities-shut-the-f-up-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons tells celebrities &#8216;shut the f*** up&#8217; about politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgene-simmons-tells-celebrities-shut-the-f-up-about-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2578677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Gene Simmons, Kiss\u2019s bassist, urged celebrities to stop voicing political opinions, arguing that they should \u201cdo your art and shut up.\u201d He dismissed teh idea that actors and cultural figures should weigh in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fcc-commissioner-blasts-democrats-for-pressuring-providers-to-drop-right-wing-news-orgs-from-cable-chilling-transgression-of-the-free-speech-rights\/\" title=\"FCC Commissioner Blasts Democrats For Pressuring Providers To Drop Right-Wing News Orgs From Cable: \u2018Chilling Transgression Of The Free Speech Rights\u2019\">political events<\/a>,telling TMZ that many celebrities \u201cdon\u2019t care what you think\u201d and joking about who is qualified to speak on politics. The piece notes Simmons\u2019 broader confrontation with celebrity activism, including remarks about Ben Stiller\u2019s request to remove a film clip from a White House video and his dig at Mark Ruffalo and other entertainers.It also mentions a State of the Union counterprotest that ruffalo attended via video, with Robert De Niro serving as a main speaker at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Key details:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Simmons\u2019 comments came in the context of a TMZ interview about celebrities\u2019 political remarks and a Ben Stiller tweet demanding removal of content from a White House post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He accused actors and others in the entertainment industry of lecturing the public and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polling-industry-faces-reckoning-after-failing-miserably-in-2020-presidential-election\/\" title=\"Polling industry faces reckoning after failing miserably in 2020 presidential election\">suggested people<\/a> might instead ask Kylie Jenner for her views on the war so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article also discusses Simmons\u2019 testimony before a Senate subcommittee in support of a royalty bill to compensate artists when their music is played, framed as protecting the next Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It notes Kiss\u2019s recognition at the Kennedy Centre Honors during a ceremony hosted by Donald Trump, alongside other artists like George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, Michael Crawford, and Sylvester Stallone.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Gene Simmons tells celebrities &lsquo;shut the f*** up&rsquo; about politics<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2529503\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Kiss bassist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3912629\/gene-simmons-gives-alex-padillas-son-music-career-advice-have-a-fall-back-position\/\">Gene Simmons<\/a> gave a firm dismissal to celebrities voicing their opinions on political events on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Actor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenStiller\/status\/2029989426948870182?s=20\">Ben Stiller asked the White House<\/a> to remove a clip of one of his movies from a video it posted to X, saying, &ldquo;We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine.&rdquo; A reporter asked Simmons about Stiller&rsquo;s complaint, to which the musician joked that everyone should listen to actors and comedians &ldquo;because they&rsquo;re so qualified.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4487924\/cnns-abby-phillip-apologizes-for-saying-nyc-bombing-attempt-targeted-mamdani\/\">CNN&#8217;s Abby Phillip apologizes for saying NYC bombing attempt targeted Mamdani<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4487837\/pathetic-cnn-media-attempt-cover-islamic-extremists-joe-concha\/\">&#8216;Pathetic&#8217; CNN and media attempted to cover for &#8216;Islamic extremists&#8217;: Joe Concha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4487066\/senate-democrats-signal-base-dhs-shutdown-guy-benson\/\">Senate Democrats try to &#8216;signal&#8217; to base with DHS shutdown: Guy Benson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Basically, shut the f*** up. Do your art, and shut up. Nobody&rsquo;s interested in your opinions, [and] that includes me, who I vote for, who I like. Who the f*** you think you are?&rdquo; Simmons told TMZ.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gene Simmons says celebs should shut up about politics &#128556; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zYdhZdCfLY\">pic.twitter.com\/zYdhZdCfLY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/2031392206443983161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Simmons added people don&rsquo;t want to be &ldquo;lectured to&rdquo; by people who &ldquo;live in mansions and drive Rolls-Royces.&rdquo; He also said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-waters-says-she-didnt-encourage-violence-as-trump-lawyer-plans-to-show-video\/\" title=\"Rep. Waters Says She Didn\u2019t Encourage Violence as Trump Lawyer Plans to Show ...\">people working<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/entertainment\/\" type=\"category\" id=\"11311\">entertainment<\/a> industry need to &ldquo;shut your piehole,&rdquo; as &ldquo;nobody cares what you think.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The musician also called out Mark &ldquo;Ruffalo Buffalo,&rdquo; saying, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care&rdquo; what he thinks. He then <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >jokingly suggested people<\/a> could ask Kylie Jenner what she thinks &ldquo;of the war so far.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ruffalo participated in a State of the Union counterprotest called &ldquo;State of the Swamp&rdquo; in February, where he appeared via video.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Actor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4469718\/robert-de-niro-joins-democrats-protest-trump\/\">Robert De Niro served as the event&rsquo;s main speaker<\/a>, where he encouraged the United States to &ldquo;turn its back on the daily atrocities of the Trump regime and their enablers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4485763\/kai-trump-secret-service-erewhon-video\/\"><strong>KAI TRUMP GETS HEAT FOR BRINGING SECRET SERVICE DURING EREWHON TRIP IN VIDEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simmons testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in December in support of a bill that would require the radio industry to pay artists when their music is played. He told the <em>Washington <\/em><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em>Examiner&nbsp;<\/em>that<\/span> this bill is about <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3912058\/gene-simmons-musician-royalty-act-protecting-elvis-presley\/\">protecting the next Elvis Presley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kiss, one of the most well-known rock bands of the 20th century, was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3910313\/trump-show-business-homecoming-kennedy-center\/\">one of five artists President Donald Trump honored<\/a> at the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremony last December. Other entertainment talents the president honored were country music star George Strait, disco queen Gloria Gaynor, Broadway legend Michael Crawford, and movie star Sylvester Stallone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Simmons tells celebs to stop talking politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2578678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP25343792546044-e1773249062597.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5344,75575,5894],"class_list":["post-2578677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-celebrities","tag-genesimmons","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP25343792546044-e1773249062597.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578681,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578677\/revisions\/2578681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}