Green Day is well known for its deep disdain for Donald Trump and it took its punk rock agenda a bit too far and once again has its cauldron of controversy boiling.
In its latest act, which has been widely deplored, the frontman of Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong, held up a Donald Trump mask with the word ‘Idiot’ scrawled on the forehead during their Monday concert.
It was the rock band’s opening ‘Savior Tour’ show at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., and it also set up a ‘register to vote’ booth at the venue.
Green Day’s Anti-MAGA Agenda
Green Day’s punk rock band has in the past been highly critical of Donald Trump and had often derided Trump by tweaking the lyrics of their mega-hit song, ‘American Idiot.’
The group has been indulging in this mud-slinging since 2016.
However, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s latest actions onstage have invited a lot of flak, especially since the former President has just survived an assassination attempt.
Many critics have blamed the actions of the failed assassin on the highly vitriolic US Presidential campaign.
The punk band has been steadily climbing the trending chart on social media on Tuesday with their continued anti-Trump narrative in Washington, D.C. Green Day, as a part of the North American leg of the ‘Saviors Tour,’ performed on July 29 at Nationals Park.
Besides fiercely waving a mask of the Republican presidential candidate with the word ‘idiot’ scribbled across the forehead, which evoked a thunderous roar of approval, Armstrong had, during their performance on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, rebuked Trump with a lyrical swing.
‘American Idiot,’ was the title track from the seventh album by Green Day and was released in 2004.
The original song featured the lyrics saying they’re not part of the ‘redneck agenda,’ but Armstrong changed it to ‘I’m not part of the MAGA agenda’ yet again.
Armstrong had also taken a swipe at Trump in 2016 while performing ‘Bang Bang’ at the American Music Awards when the 52-year-old singer sang,
‘No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,’
It was about a Ku Klux Klan newspaper declaring support for Trump’s presidential bid at the time.
However, the Trump campaign had denounced the oldest white supremacist group’s support and had then said that the publication was repulsive and their views are not concurrent with the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind Trump’s campaign.”
The latest actions by the band have outraged several people with calls to boycott the band.
Popular right-wing influencer DC Draino wrote on X,
‘Time to Boycott Green Day, Utter trash,’ he said.
Some users also charged the band with inciting violence.
‘Inciting violence against a former President,’ read one comment.
