Inexperienced Day kicked off 2024 in probably the most Inexperienced Day means potential: by taking one other snarling lyrical swing at Donald Trump. The band tweaked the politically charged lyrics to the title observe from their seventh studio album, 2004’s “American Fool,” throughout their Sunday night time (Dec. 31) set on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
“I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” singer Billie Joe Armstrong snarled from the stage, changing the unique line wherein he acknowledged that he was not a part of the “redneck agenda”; click on right here to look at video of the second. Because the four-times indicted, twice impeached former president ping-pongs between court docket dates and marketing campaign appearances, the most recent lyrical slag from the veteran punk-pop trio was not an enormous shock.
Inexperienced Day have lengthy spoken out about their disdain for the previous actuality star whose latest speeches have featured fascist-like phrases which have raised alarm amongst political pundits for referring to political opponents as “vermin,” language that echoed that utilized by Nazi chief Adolph Hitler. Again in 2019, the band didn’t maintain again on the iHeartRadio Music Competition in Las Vegas, the place they debuted the anti-MAGA line in “American Fool.” On the 2016 American Music Awards Inexperienced Day took intention on the then president-elect whereas performing “Bang Bang,” the place Armstrong chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,” in a nod to Trump’s endorsement by the KKK and the rise in racist assaults following his election.
As you may anticipate, the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame band who’ve proudly waved the flag of disdain for authority and authoritarianism for greater than three a long time drew the ire of a few of these MAGA Nation followers, in addition to X proprietor Elon Musk. “Inexperienced Day goes from raging in opposition to the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” the controversy-loving Tesla/SpaceX CEO tweeted.
A few of Trump’s MAGA minions joined Musk in denigrating the group, with one X poster calling them “punk rock sellouts,” whereas Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist director and Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo quipped “punk rock is professional large authorities” and right-wing troll Catturd wrote, “nothing says ‘punk rock’ like Authorities bootlicking, millionaire sellouts enjoying on ABC.”
The transfer mustn’t come as any shock contemplating that in their 2017 tour, Armstrong would typically shout “F–ok you, Donald Trump!” throughout performances of “American Fool.” And, after Trump’s mugshot was launched following his indictment for trying to intrude with Georgia’s election course of within the 2020 presidential race, GD launched an “final Nimrod” shirt with the scowling picture of the one-term president on it as a profit for the victims of final 12 months’s devastating Maui wildfire.
There have been, in fact, loads of GD supporters who applauded the band’s prime time takedown, with one noting that the unique songs have been geared toward one other Republican commander-in-chief, George W. Bush through the Iraq Struggle. “To the bi–hes b–ching: Inexperienced Day was by no means in your aspect. ‘American Fool’ got here out in 2004, who was president then? EXACTLY. That album was a center finger to Dubya, you have been simply too silly to appreciate it,” they wrote. One other questioned if these complaining in regards to the Trump dump have been ever actually paying consideration. “Why did Inexperienced Day need to insert politics into their efficiency of ‘American Fool’ is a very unbelievable sentence to learn,” one X consumer wrote.
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