During Green Day’s headline set at iHeartRadio’s ALTer EGO festival on Saturday (Jan. 17th) in LA, the band took a moment to call out the Trump administration and speak out in support of anti-ICE protestors in Minneapolis.
Kicking off their 12-song set with “American Idiot,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong carried on the tradition of changing the track’s lyrics from “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”
It was during an instrumental break in the middle of their song “Holiday,” however, that Armstrong commented the controversy surrounding ICE’s presence in Minneapolis.
“This song is anti-fascism. This song is anti-war. We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota,” he said.
Armstrong then turned his attention to Donald Trump’s Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller. Tweaking the song’s lyrics, Armstrong sang, “Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Miller now has the floor,” before launching into the unchanged lines, “Sieg Heil to the President Gasman / Bombs away is your punishment.”
Released in 2004, “Holiday” was written as a protest song, originally taking aim at then-president George W. Bush and the Iraq War.
Armstrong’s recent comments come after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by ICE officer Jonathan Ross.
