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Elon Musk pokes fun at Green Day’s performance slamming Trump’s ‘MAGA agenda’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk called out Green Day after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made an anti-Trump remark at the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” special on Sunday.
Singing the lyrics to the band’s hit 2004 tune “American Idiot,” Armstrong subbed the song’s “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” verse for the line, “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”
Writing on X on Monday, Musk accused the pop-punk band of straying from its roots.
“Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” Musk wrote, adding laughing emojis.
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The band, which formed in California’s East Bay in 1987, has been vocally critical of conservative politicians for decades.
In a 2016 interview with Kerrang! magazine, Armstrong compared former President Trump to Adolf Hitler.
“The worst problem I see about Trump is who his followers are,” Armstrong said. “I actually feel bad for them because they’re poor, working-class people who can’t get a leg up. They’re just p—– off, and he’s preyed on their anger.”
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“He just said, ‘You have no options, and I’m the only one, and I’m going to take care of it myself.’ I mean, that’s f—— Hitler, man!” the “Basket Case” singer added.
During a concert in 2018, Armstrong told his French audience that he “f—— hate[d] Donald Trump so much.”
“I used to scream I hated George Bush,” the frontman said. “This one is a little different. This one is bad, it’s like acid gone bad. F—ing LSD and the American right, man.”
Fox News Digital’s Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
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