KISS I felt like I was screaming loudly when Donald Trump would be among the award winners of this year's Kennedy Center on Wednesday (August 13). The (allegedly) retired FettrosTepaint rockers, who are known for beloved jams such as “Love Gun”, “Black Diamond” and “Christine Sixteen” Rocky/Rambo Actor Sylvester Stallone.
Trump said that this year he was deeply involved in the selection process-intake of his plans to become the first US president to align the show-and the choice of kiss is interesting in view of the president's known dislike of anyone who criticizes him.
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Despite previously not agreed with Trump's actions during his first term in quotations that were first reported by TMZAccording to reports, the members of the band were pleased about how Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Stevie Wonder and Garth Brooks, such as Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte and Garth Brooks, join the band.
“Kiss is the embodiment of the American dream,” said bassist/singer Gene Simmons in the statements confirmed Advertising board From the repeats of the band. “We are deeply honored to receive the honor of the Kennedy Center.”
The singer/guitarist Paul Stanley added: “From our earliest days, Kiss embodied the American ideal that all things are possible and that hard work pays off. The prestige of the Kennedy Center cannot be overestimated, and I accept this on behalf of the Long Legacy of Kiss and all the band members who create our gangs.”
Former guitarist Ace Frehle called it a “dream that I would never have thought about it” would be in question “and the former drummer Peter Criss said:” I feel so blessed. This is the greatest honor of our career. “
Trump was the first president who never took part in the annual honor of Gala of the Kennedy Center during his first term, and until recently he had never accepted in a single program in the beloved DC Arts Center.
The choice of critics kiss is interesting because it comes to Trump for a week after Trump had fired the head of the non-partisan, technocratic office for work statistics after publishing a job report that he claimed that he was “manipulated” without evidence to make him look bad.
Simmons – who was fired by Trump from Trump in week three of the first season of Trump in week The celebrity apprentice In 2008 – initially praised the president before winning the White House for the first time. The rocker, who is known for his entrepreneurial acknowledgment, called Trump the “Trust's political animal I have ever seen on stage and praise the former reality TV star for having no speech writers and “good for the political system.
He changed his melody a short time later.
The band a reported invitation rejected To play Trump's first inauguration, and when Trump lost his second office against President Joe Biden in 2020, Simmons had a completely different view. “I knew him before he entered politics. Take a look at what this gentleman did with this country and polarization – all the cockroaches to climb up. Once it was embarrassing to be public racist, and out there with conspiracy theories. Turn In May 2022.
Simmons told the magazine that the two of them knew each other apprentice From the same night clubs around the hanging, but this president is a completely different job than aligning a game show. “You have a different responsibility if you are only a citizen or entrepreneurs. You don't make politics,” he said. “It has no influence on life and death. If you get into a position of power. I don't think he is a Republican or a democrat. He is on the road for himself. And in the last elections, over 70 million people bought hooks, line and sink.”
In a similar way, Stanley tweeted in January 2021 that Trump's refusal to accept the results of the loss of election of the previous year, “accept”, “,”Hidden. A real danger to our democracy. The problem is not that it doesn't work. It is the behavior of the MOB boss and politician to set the party about audits, investigations, court holidays and land in order to overwrite the will of the American voters. “
Stanley also referred to the violent horde of Trump supporters who on January 6, 2021 as “the Capitol as” stormed “Terrorist“The attack as an” armed uprising “of a mob [Trump] & specific senators, who cannot now be approved, abandon or denounce what they have caused directly. Do you know your names. This is the result of their deception. Shame.”
Kennedy Center 2025's Trump-spoiled honors will be broadcast on CBS in December.
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