RAGE FOR THE MACHINE: Green Day Uses NYE Performance To Lash Out At Trump Supporters

Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer of the aging rock band Green Day, changed the lyrics to the band’s single American Idiot in an insult to Trump supporters on live TV.

The band performed the song on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve Rockin’ Eve on ABC, which attracted roughly 13.7 million viewers a year ago. During the band’s performance, Armstrong opted to change the lyrics at a crucial part, singing “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” instead of the song’s actual lyrics, “I’m not part of a redneck agenda.”

Green Day’s latest anti-Trump rant was widely met with mockery on social media, with X owner Elon Musk laughing off the band’s frequent political statements. “Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” Musk wrote in an X post complete with two laughing emojis.

Another user posted a meme that slammed the band as “boot lickers” for the government, pharmaceutical companies, arms contractors and financial firms such as BlackRock.

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— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) January 1, 2024

Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it 🤣🤣

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2024

Sunday evening was far from the first time Armstrong has publicly bashed the former president.

Ahead of the 2016 election, the singer compared compared Trump to Adolf Hitler. “The worst problem I see about Trump is who his followers are,” Armstrong told Karring! magazine. “I actually feel bad for them, because they’re poor, working-class people who can’t get a leg up. They’re pissed off and he’s preyed on their anger. He just said, ‘You have no options and I’m the only one, and I’m going to take care of it myself.’ I mean, that’s f**king Hitler, man!”

In November of that year, the band led chants of “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!” from the stage during a performance. And just last year, Armstrong shared that he is renouncing his U.S. citizenship over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, adding “F**k America!”