Green Day frontman rips Trump and 'MAGA agenda' during NY Eve special
As critical as Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was of President George W. Bush during the 2000s, he has been even more disdainful of 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. That disdain was evident during Green Day's performance on ABC's "New Year's Rockin' Eve."
Performing their Bush-era 2004 hit "American Idiot," Armstrong changed the lyric "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda."
This wasn't the first time that Armstrong publicly attacked Trump and his MAGA movement. During a Green Day performance in 2018, the Messenger's Jenna Fanelli notes, Armstrong told attendees, "I f*****g hate Donald Trump so much. I used to scream I hated George Bush. This one is a little different. This one is bad. It's like acid gone bad — f*****g LSD and the American right, man."
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Broadcast from Times Square in New York City, "New Year's Rock Eve" debuted in the early 1970s and was, for many years, hosted by the late Dick Clark (best known for his decades hosting "American Bandstand" from Philadelphia and later, Los Angeles).
Trump, despite being a highly polarizing figure and facing four criminal indictments, appears to be on track to win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Some polls have shown Trump with a single-digit leads over Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden in a hypothetical rematch.
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