Green Day have upset the world's richest man, MAGA supporters, and the Fox News network after tweaking the lyrics of American Idiot for a live TV performance to suggest that they are no fans of former president Donald Trump.
People who may have slept on the Californian punk band's “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!” chant on-stage during a performance of Bang Bang at the 2016 American Music awards 12 days after the US election which brought Donald Trump to power, have expressed outrage that Billie Joe Armstrong changed the lyric "I'm not part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda" during the band's appearance on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve show.
'Remember when Green Day sang about going against the establishment, and now all they’re just cucks for the machine?' wrote one commentator on the band's Instagram page (formerly Twitter) page, while another comment on X, formerly Twitter - 'Green Day tried to prove they're still cool by changing their lyrics to slam the "MAGA agenda" on TV last night' - led platform owner Elon Musk, the world's richest person, to reply 'Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it'.
