Green Day take aim at Trump and Elon Musk isn’t happy

It’s going to be a big year for US punk-pop band Green Day, and they’ve kickstarted 2024 the only way they know how: with a controversial bang.

On top releasing of their upcoming 14th studio album ‘Saviors’ on 19 January, the band are celebrating both the 30th and 20th anniversary of their 'Dookie' debut (1994) and their critically lauded 'American Idiot' album (2004) this year.

And 20 years after the release of ‘American Idiot’ and its titular single, which originally features the lyrics "Well, maybe I’m the faggot, America/ I’m not a part of a redneck agenda/ Now everybody, do the propaganda/And sing along to the age of paranoia", the band have changed the lyrics to reflect the current political climate in the US.

They did so during their performance at Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, altering the lyrics to: "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."

Watch the moment below:

The song was originally written about the Iraq War, the non-critical cable news coverage of the US invasion, and as a shot against George W. Bush; now Green Day have got Trump and his presidential rally slogan, “Make America Great Again” (MAGA), in their visor.

And what better time to take a few jabs at Trump, as the former president gears up for a second White House bid?

It’s not the first time they’ve hit out at Trump – most notably at the American Music Awards in 2016, during which they led a chant of “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” in protest against the then-President electoral candidate. In 2018, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told a crowd at a Cannes Lions performance: “I fucking hate Donald Trump so much. I used to scream ‘I hated