Punk Rockers Green Day Mock MAGA, Get Hit With Karma As Fireworks From Their Set Send Crowd Running

Aging mascara-obsessed punk rockers Green Day altered their lyrics during a performance at Coachella to slam President Trump and his supporters, then set a palm tree on fire that prompted officials to disperse the crowd in that area.

The band performed their song “American Idiot," originally an anthem meant to insult former President George W. Bush, and tweaked the words to take a shot at Trump.

"I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" was oh-so-subtly switched to "I'm not part of the MAGA agenda."

Attention-seeking at Coachella in Southern California has all the feel of Steve Buscemi in his "How do you do fellow kids?" skit. It's pretty sad when you've gone from raging against the machine to just trying to fit in with it.

Green Day just as based as ever.
opening Coachella with "American Idiot" and changing the lyrics to "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda" 💪🏼🇺🇸❌
oh and supporting Palestine 🇵🇸😌 pic.twitter.com/0G7jPhkpAJ
— /ˈtinɑ/ ⎕ (@hazyheadbigcity) April 13, 2025

Green Day and their frontman Billie Joe Armstrong also took a stand in support of Palestine, parroting propaganda from Hamas in the song "Jesus Of Suburbia."

With that performance, they altered the lyric "Runnin' away from pain when you've been victimized" to "Runnin' away from pain like the kids from Palestine."

In an ironic twist, the band that talked down to over half of America by referring to them as "idiots" then launched fireworks from their set. In the desert. On a day when temperatures exceeded 100 degrees. In a location just a couple hours outside wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles.

One of those fireworks went off course, setting a palm tree on fire.

Fortunately, nobody was injured. But officials were heard shouting, “Everybody out, please,” as they evacuated the area and promptly extinguished the fire.

A firework just exploded next to me and all my friends at Coachella. I can’t hear out of my right ear, multiple people hurt. That was fucking insane, I thought it was a terrorist attack. pic.twitter.com/sCBhVuPJqu
— 2 BLICKY RICKY (@banksfucks) April 13, 2025

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While it might not have been quite as dramatic as the person on X posted above, it's undoubtedly a little bit of karma that Green Day accidentally forced some fans to vacate the area after referring to MAGA as the idiots.

This isn't the first time the band, which peaked in the '90s, has made the MAGA reference, doing so at a performance on "Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve" as they helped ring in 2024.

You know, the year MAGA had a massive resurgence and sent the newly popular Trump back to the White House?

That performance led DOGE Chief Elon Musk to mock the band as "milquetoast," which is unfair to people that are milquetoast.

Green Day is feigning relevance while basically emulating everybody else in the entertainment industry who makes more money than their talent dictates and looks down on the average American. The once 'super-edgy' group is now relegated to delivering their anti-American message at shows designed for little more than collecting a paycheck.

It can't be easy being in your mid-50s, still pretending you're a punk teenager, and hoping everybody around you will continue to prop you up as a rebel while playing corporate juggernaut sets for the late Dick Clark and Coachella.

It's important to note that the song “American Idiot” itself is an anthem in opposition to unnecessary wars (Iraq) driven by the media coverage supporting them.

Today, the “MAGA agenda” that Armstrong is railing against is quite possibly the only political alignment opposed to unnecessary wars across the globe, particularly the funding of wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and they are the only opposition to legacy media that helps prop up these efforts.

Billie, there’s some common ground there, bruh. If you could stop spouting off liberal media talking points like a good little Democrat shill long enough to figure it out.

Stop being such an idiot.