Green Day Slams Trump’s ‘MAGA Agenda’ During ‘American Idiot’ Performance on ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve’

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Green Day performed a fan favorite while performing live on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, but with a twist.

While singing the 2004 classic rock hit American Idiot, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong opted to omit an anti-gay slur from one of the lines, and change the original lyric "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda."

This is not the first time the musician has been outspoken about his disdain for former president Donald Trump and his followers who identify themselves by the acronym for his "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.

In their performance at the 2016 MTV EMA Awards, the band addressed the political climate, mentioning Trump by name.

Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day attend Amazon Music Live Concert Series 2023 in Los Angeles Jerritt Clark/Getty Images

"Most of all, it's nice to be out of America just for a second, because of this horrendous election that's going on right now," Armstrong told the audience. "Our entire country is about to have one big, collective heart attack."

And in 2018, the band performed an intimate concert during international arts festival Cannes Lions, and got candid with the audience between songs.

"I f—ing hate Donald Trump so much," he said. "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—ing LSD and the American Right, man."