Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has got the band in trouble as there have been calls for Secret Service to investigate the band as Armstrong protested against former President Donald Trump in a disgusting manner.
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Calls for Green Day to be boycotted
On Monday, Green Day performed at Nationals Park in Washington DC alongside The Smashing Pumpkins. The band faced calls for boycott after Armstrong decided to hold up a Trump mask. He even changed the lyrics to a popular song just weeks after the former president was shot.
A video clip on X showed how Billie Joe Armstrong stirred controversy. He labeled Donald Trump an “idiot” in a bold stunt at the 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”
The band has a fair share of history of protesting 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.”
Their first major performance to see these lyrics was 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 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.
It was on July 13 that 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, Trump survived as the bullet only grazed Trump’s ear in a barrage of gunfire that killed one rally-goer and injured two others.
Within 26 seconds of the first shot, a Secret Service counter-sniper stationed on another nearby roof returned fire and immediately killed Crooks, according to law enforcement officials. Police believe that Crooks, who was a registered Republican and reportedly a former Trump supporter, physically went to the site of the rally the day before and early that morning.
