Gene Simmons thanked President Trump for his "leadership" on music issues during a Senate hearing Tuesday. "I was happy to see many of you this Sunday where KISS, our little band, was honored at the Kennedy Center with President Trump," Simmons said in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hearing. "I'm proud to say I first met President Trump years before he got into politics. And I'm happy to remind everyone here in this room that our President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act in 2018.