Green Day Stop Show After Fan Collapses

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On Monday, pop punk band Green Day performed at Nationals Park in Washington DC alongside The Smashing Pumpkins. It has come to light that Billie Joe Armstrong stopped the concert to check on a fan who fell. He can be often seen stopping a concert if he notices something going on with the crowd, whether its an injury, rude fans fighting, and he has been doing it for a long time.

Billie Joe Armstrong halts concert to help fan

Missed the first part but Billie stopped to check on a fan who fell in Washington DC tonight
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This is the same concert which drew major flak from the fans. Green Day has met an attack of boycott calls as Billie Joe Armstrong defiantly held up a Trump mask and changed the lyrics to a popular song just weeks after the former president was shot. The band also tried to register voters at the show, with the band frequently backing Democrats like Kamala Harris.

In a video clip on X, Billie Joe Armstrong sparked controversy by calling Donald Trump an “idiot” in a bold onstage stunt at a concert Monday. The mask represents a dead or defeated Trump while performing in DC barely a couple of weeks after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated. Armstrong also changed the American Idiot lyric to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda”

The band has a fair share of history of speaking out against the former president, using this changed lyric in multiple shows since 2016. It has come to light that during a televised performance on this year’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, the band used the lyrics replacing “Redneck” with “MAGA.” 5 Republicans went to war with Green Day.

Their first major performance to feature these lyrics happened at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in 2019. During the 2016 American Music Awards, the band also chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” during their performance of the song, Bang Bang.

However, this most recent 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.

On July 13, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire and attempted to assassinate former president Donald Trump as he spoke at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Crooks was on a rooftop about 430 feet away. Fortunately, the bullet only grazed Trump’s ear in a barrage of gunfire that killed one rally-goer and injured two others.