Green Day Rips “MAGA Agenda” In NYE Performance

The Huffington Post reports:

Green Day tweaked one of their best-known songs to lash out at Donald Trump and his supporters during a televised New Year’s Eve performance on Sunday night.

“I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” singer Billie Joe Armstrong belted out during “American Idiot” on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” on ABC.

The line is usually “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” Green Day, which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, has a new album coming out later this month.

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Here’s the verse from last night:

Well, maybe I’m the faggot, America
I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

ABC bleeped the word “faggot,” which appears in the original version of the song. Armstrong, who has two adult sons with his wife of 29 years, is openly bisexual.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong altered the lyrics in “American Idiot” to sing, “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” during the band’s performance on Ryan Seacrest’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. pic.twitter.com/eclNR7D83s

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