During a recent concert, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong had a sticker on his guitar that said “Gender is an illusion.”
Green Day never fails to make its political stances clear to fans, and this led to a ton of controversy recently. 5 Republicans recently blasted them for their actions.
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has gotten the band in trouble as there have been calls for the Secret Service to investigate the band. This is because Armstrong protested against former President Donald Trump controversially. The band also faced calls for boycott after Armstrong decided to hold up a Trump mask and change the lyrics to a popular song just weeks after the former president was shot.
Armstrong sparked controversy and labeled Donald Trump an “idiot” in a bold stunt at a concert. It has come to light that the mask represents a dead or defeated Trump, and it comes a few weeks after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated. Armstrong also changed the American Idiot lyric to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”
Green Day has a history of protesting against the former president, and they changed lyrics at multiple shows since 2016. During a televised performance on this year’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, the band used the lyrics “MAGA” instead of “Redneck.”
Their first major performance with these altered lyrics was at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in 2019. Additionally, during the 2016 American Music Awards, the band chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” during their performance of the song “Bang Bang.”
However, this recent controversial stunt on stage came only a few weeks after the assassination attempt of the former president at a rally in Pennsylvania – leading to calls to boycott the band.
