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The beloved 2000s punk rock band is facing some backlash.
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has never been shy about his political leanings. The 52-year-old has been very vocal about his disdain towards former President Donald Trump, but he maybe should have toned down this latest stunt. Especially since we're just a couple of weeks removed from an assassination attempt on the 45th President's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Over the years, Green Day has been known to tweak the lyrics to their hit song "American Idiot" to display their hatred for Trump. In the part of the verse where Armstrong sings "part of the redneck agenda," the band has substituted "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda."
They kept up the anti-MAGA rhetoric at their most recent concert in the nation's capital:
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1818103063829233744
And listen... as angering as that may be to some, there's nothing wrong with that. If anything, it's part of the core identity of punk rock to be anti-government and anti-establishment.
But there is a line that has to be drawn somewhere, and many are saying that Billie Joe Armstrong holding up a mask, symbolic of a "severed head," of Trump with the word "idiot" spelled across the forehead might be a little too much in this current political climate. Granted, Armstrong and Green Day have done it before, but this is one of those "read the room" situations.
You probably shouldn't do this after a tremendously tragic event - that almost claimed the life of a former president - unfolded in Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago.
During "Jesus Of Suburbia," Armstrong held up the Trump as he sang:
"Everyone's so full of shitBorn and raised by hypocritesHearts recycled, but never savedFrom the cradles to the graveWe are the kids of war and peaceFrom Anaheim to the Middle EastWe are the stories and disciples ofThe Jesus of Suburbia..."
https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1818292038439207075
Here's a video of the stunt:
https://twitter.com/Scentofawoman10/status/1818380571271475301
Not a great look
As you can imagine, the mask stunt by the punk rock band has caused a multitude of people on social media to chip in with their concerns, with some calling out the group for inciting violence:
Green Day and Billie Joe Armstrong have yet to respond to the criticism that is currently ramping up online.
