Green Day shredded President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda over the weekend with a pair of tweaked lyrics during a Los Angeles concert.
On Saturday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers played a number of hits from their 2004 classic album “American Idiot,” including the hit song “Holiday” which takes a dig at former President George W. Bush’s administration and its war in Iraq.
“This song is anti-fascism. This song is anti-war,” declared lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong at the Saturday show. “We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota.”
Following his show of support for protesters against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he exchanged the lyrics on the song’s interlude to take aim at a key figure influencing Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The song’s original lyrics include the line, “The representative from California has the floor. Armstrong instead said, “Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Miller now has the floor,” before launching into the bridge of “Holiday,” which includes the lyrics, “Sieg Heil to the President Gasman.”
The anti-Trump rockers have previously altered the lyrics of “American Idiot” to diss the president, and they did the same while kicking off the show with a performance of the hit song.
“I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” sang Armstrong, whose original lyrics on the song are, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.”
The band closed the show with a message to America.
“Hey everybody, please look out for your neighbors. Make sure you take care of each other. Make sure you love one another. Protect each other,” Armstrong said. “Chinga la migra!” (which loosely translates to, “fuck the immigration cops.”)
Green Day’s latest swipes at the administration arrive just weeks before the band is set to perform at the Super Bowl LX opening ceremony next month.
The halftime show will be headlined by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny, a Trump critic who notably did not include a U.S. date on his latest tour due to ICE raids in the president’s second term.
News of the Spanish-speaking superstar’s halftime show swiftly ruffled MAGA’s feathers, with Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski warning in October that ICE agents would be at the Super Bowl on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
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