Billie Joe Armstrong has clearly caught the eye of comic Kathy Griffin.
The Inexperienced Day entrance synthetic headlines this week for a Monday present in Washington, D.C., the place he held up a masks of former President Donald Trump — with the phrase “idiot” scrawled throughout its brow.
Griffin couldn’t assist however chime in after listening to concerning the second, as she herself was as soon as photographed holding up the Republican’s pretend severed head. Griffin has stated she briefly landed on a no-fly checklist for the 2017 photograph, whereas additionally dealing with a potential cost of conspiracy to assassinate the president.
“Yknow, i’ve always liked @greenday & @billiejoearmstrong,” she wrote Thursday on social media, utilizing the handles for Inexperienced Day and Armstrong.
“I see you,” she stated in a separate submit addressed to the musicians.
Whereas it’s not completely clear how the Trump masks ended up in Armstrong’s arms, on-line live performance footage reveals him bending over in entrance of the gang after which rising as much as present it to followers.
Conservatives on social media fumed over the incident, which befell mere weeks after an assassination try at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
“Green Day had a concert here in DC last night,” Nick Sortor, a journalist identified for his work with shops like Fox Information and Newsmax, wrote on X. “They decided it’d be a good idea to hold up a severed Trump head. Just TWO weeks after he was sh*t in the head. These people are SICK.”
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Inexperienced Day has been politically outspoken for years. The group’s 2004 single “American Idiot” was written in response to then-President George W. Bush’s administration and the invasion of Iraq. On the time, Armstrong additionally donned a Bush masks with the phrase “idiot” printed on it.
Throughout Monday’s present, Inexperienced Day carried out a model of “American Idiot” with altered lyrics, altering the road “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda,” in reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. The band has landed in scorching water for doing so earlier than.
The live performance got here amid Inexperienced Day’s Saviors Tour, which is able to take the group throughout the U.S. and the globe earlier than wrapping up in Yokohama, Japan, subsequent 12 months.
