Say what you want about President Donald Trump's plan to overhaul the Kennedy Center-but you can't say George Strait didn't earn his honors. On Wednesday, Trump announced the recipients of the 48th Kennedy Center Honors.

Years later, however, in May 2022, Simmons seemingly likened Trump's camp to "cockroaches" and said he was "out for himself" when speaking to SPIN. "Look what that gentleman [Trump] did to this country and the polarization — got all the cockroaches to rise to the top," the singer said at the time.