Green Day's MAGA Message Sparks Fury From Donald Trump Supporters

Punk band Green Day recently faced the ire of Donald Trump supporters when it changed out the lyrics to one of its most well-known songs during a performance.

Fronted by Billie Joe Armstrong, the trio was at a New Year's Eve broadcast where they performed their hit "American Idiot."

Instead of singing the usual lyric, "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda," Armstrong belted "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda," during the Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve special on ABC.

MAGA refers to the term "Make America Great Again," coined by former President Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.

The MAGA crowd was unimpressed with Armstrong's words and took to social media to vent their anger.

"Green Day is now Green Done. Don't they understand it's no longer Hollywood Cool with the rest of us to take potshots at DJT? We the people are speaking!" wrote one person on Truth Social.

While a second added: "I now hate Green Day what a shame."

"LAME," replied one person to a video of the changed lyric.

With lyrics like "Don't want to be an American idiot, one nation controlled by the media," "American Idiot" became an anthem for political protests. In 2018, the song topped the music charts in the U.K. 14 years after its release ahead of former President Donald Trump's visit to England.

Green Day has long been vocal about its distaste for Trump and previously changed the "American Idiot" lyrics in 2019.

In 2016, Armstrong chanted "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA" during a performance at the American Music Awards.

"I f****** hate Donald Trump so much," he said during a private performance in 2018, per Variety. "I used to scream I hated George Bush. This one is a little different. This one is bad, it's like acid gone bad."

"Back then, if I look at a collage of one of those songs, it's become real life," Armstrong said and explained he wrote "American Idiot" about the Iraq War. "Without getting too political, it's important we look out for each other and show compassion."

Armstrong got worked up last year after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe vs. Wade, ending federal access to abortions.

"F*** America. I'm f****** renouncing my citizenship. I'm f****** coming here," Armstrong said to a crowd in London. "There's too much f****** stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f****** excuse for a country."

"Oh, I'm not kidding, you're going to get a lot of me in the coming days."

Armstrong first formed Green Day with bandmates Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt in 1987.

The band's breakout album Dookie came out in 1994 and sold more than 10 million copies. Green Day was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.