PERSON: Gene Simmons
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Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949) is an American musician. Also known by his stage persona “The Demon,” he was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss, which he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in the early 1970s until their retirement in 2023. Simmons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss.
Simmons was a supporter of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administration. He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing on his website: “I’m ashamed to be surrounded by people calling themselves liberal who are, in my opinion, spitting on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their life to fight a war that wasn’t theirs... in a country they’ve never been to... simply to liberate the people therein”. In a follow-up, Simmons explained his position and wrote about his love and support for the United States: “I wasn’t born here. But I have a love for this country and its people that knows no bounds. I will forever be grateful to America for going into World War II, when it had nothing to gain, in a country that was far away... and rescued my mother from the Nazi German concentration camps. She is alive and I am alive because of America. And, if you have a problem with America, you have a problem with me”.
In 2010, Simmons said he regretted voting for Barack Obama and criticized the 2009 health care reforms. Following Obama’s 2011 speech on the Middle East in which he called on Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a settlement “based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps,” Simmons told CNBC that Obama was gravely misguided. “If you have never been to the moon, you can’t issue policy about the moon. For the president to be sitting in Washington D.C. and saying, ‘Go back to your ‘67 borders in Israel’ – how about you live there and try to defend an indefensible border – nine miles (14 km) wide?” Simmons also accused the United Nations of being “the most pathetic body on the face of the earth”.
In an April 2012 interview, Simmons endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for President: “America should be in business and it should be run by a businessman.”
In an August 2021 interview, regarding the honesty of Donald Trump and his presidential administration, Simmons said, “[W]e all lie to some extent, but what happened the last four years was beyond anything I ever thought imaginable from people who had lots of power — not just him, but the administration, everybody.”
On November 10, 2021, he stated that people who refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine are “an enemy” and called them “evil”.
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Simmons was a supporter of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administration. He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing on his website: “I’m ashamed to be surrounded by people calling themselves liberal who are, in my opinion, spitting on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their life to fight a war that wasn’t theirs... in a country they’ve never been to... simply to liberate the people therein”. In a follow-up, Simmons explained his position and wrote about his love and support for the United States: “I wasn’t born here. But I have a love for this country and its people that knows no bounds. I will forever be grateful to America for going into World War II, when it had nothing to gain, in a country that was far away... and rescued my mother from the Nazi German concentration camps. She is alive and I am alive because of America. And, if you have a problem with America, you have a problem with me”.
In 2010, Simmons said he regretted voting for Barack Obama and criticized the 2009 health care reforms. Following Obama’s 2011 speech on the Middle East in which he called on Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a settlement “based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps,” Simmons told CNBC that Obama was gravely misguided. “If you have never been to the moon, you can’t issue policy about the moon. For the president to be sitting in Washington D.C. and saying, ‘Go back to your ‘67 borders in Israel’ – how about you live there and try to defend an indefensible border – nine miles (14 km) wide?” Simmons also accused the United Nations of being “the most pathetic body on the face of the earth”.
In an April 2012 interview, Simmons endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for President: “America should be in business and it should be run by a businessman.”
In an August 2021 interview, regarding the honesty of Donald Trump and his presidential administration, Simmons said, “[W]e all lie to some extent, but what happened the last four years was beyond anything I ever thought imaginable from people who had lots of power — not just him, but the administration, everybody.”
On November 10, 2021, he stated that people who refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine are “an enemy” and called them “evil”.
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