{"id":803690,"date":"2020-01-31T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=946061"},"modified":"2020-01-31T09:12:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:12:48","slug":"michael-stipe-told-trump-to-shut-up-at-a-patti-smith-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/michael-stipe-told-trump-to-shut-up-at-a-patti-smith-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Stipe Told Trump to \u2018Shut Up\u2019 at a Patti Smith Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/StephenColbert.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/michael-stipe\/\">Michael Stipe<\/a> went on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>Thursday night to discuss his new book&nbsp;<em>Our Interference Times: A Visual Record<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Stipe talked about the inspiration behind the book (the merging of analog and digital technology) as well as about one of his earliest heroes: Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was this ostracized outsider that was beloved by me, and probably you, actually,\u201d Stipe told Colbert with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert also asked the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/r.e.m.\/\">R.E.M.<\/a> frontman what he felt about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> using the band\u2019s song, \u201cIt\u2019s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)\u201d as a walkout song at rallies. Stipe encouraged the <em>Late Show&nbsp;<\/em>audience to boo before explaining that, due to licensing issues, the band could only \u201cpolitely\u201d tell Trump to refrain from using the song.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Stipe said, he managed to tell off Trump one time in the late Nineties. While attending a benefit concert at Joe\u2019s Pub, Stipe was sitting in the VIP section when Trump came in and sat down with his date, loudly talking throughout the whole performance. When Stipe\u2019s friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/patti-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_patti-smith\" data-tag=\"patti-smith\">Patti Smith<\/a> came onstage, he finally turned to Trump and told him to \u201cshut up,\u201d prompting the real estate mogul to leave.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/michael-stipe-trump-patti-smith-946061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Stipe went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&nbsp;Thursday night to discuss his new book&nbsp;Our Interference Times: A Visual Record. Stipe talked about the inspiration behind the book (the merging of analog and digital technology) as well as about one of his earliest heroes: Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. \u201cHe was this ostracized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 02:45:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}