{"id":208975,"date":"2025-12-24T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:17:07","slug":"gene-simmons-tells-public-shut-your-piehole-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208975\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons tells public \u2018shut your piehole\u2019 after\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/gene-simmons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gene Simmons<\/a> said \u201ceverybody shut your piehole\u201d after he was questioned about his connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday (23 December), the Kiss frontman was quizzed about the US president, who host Charlotte Hawkins noted \u201cdivides opinion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You mean because England doesn&#8217;t have polarised politics?&#8221; he responded, before recommending everyone &#8220;take a deep breath\u201d as \u201cthe sun is coming up tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After making an analogy about the British pound coin, where he said that each side remains valid despite looking different, he concluded: \u201cSo everybody just shut your piehole. It\u2019s going to be okay. Just relax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Simmons met with the US president, who handed him a Kennedy Center Honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons said \u201ceverybody shut your piehole\u201d after he was questioned about his connection to Donald Trump. Appearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2476,321,3109,93,3113,61,3107,60,43,3110,3108,3111,3112,268],"class_list":["post-208975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrities","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-ie","tag-inkl","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}