"They haven't been relevant in 30 years"— Internet calls for Green Day boycott after Billie Joe Armstrong holds up Trump Idiot mask at concert

Green Day is facing boycott requests after lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wore a Trump mask with "Idiot" written on it during their performance on July 29. He did this while playing Jesus of Suburbia at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, and later tossed the mask into the audience. He also changed the lyrics to their hit song American Idiot during the concert.

In place of the original lyrics "Redneck agenda", the lyrics now read,

"I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda.”

Here, he referred to Trump’s famous slogan,

“Make America Great Again.”

However, once the video and the news of the stunt went public, X users took to the platform to express their criticism about the same. They even urged other netizens to boycott the band.

“They haven't been relevant in 30 years”, wrote one furious netizen.

“Time to Boycott Green Day... Utter trash”, another one claimed.

“Their music sucks”, one X user said.

“Fck Green Day!”, affirmatively stated another one.

Other netizens and X users also shared the same sentiments.

“Green Day had a concert here in DC last night. 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.”, said another one.

“Green Day is a washed up band grasping for any taste of the fame they once had”, wrote one X user.

“Apparently they think their fans are total degenerates and will eat this stuff up”, commented another netizen.

“12 year old me who bought their album Dookie when I was a skateboarder kid is highly disappointed in Green Day now”, wrote one netizen.

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Green Day showed off the Donald Trump mask a few weeks after the attempted assassination

The band has always been Anti - Trump (Image via Facebook / Green Day)

Pop punk group Green Day and The Smashing Pumpkins played together at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, on Monday, July 29. On the same day, the punk rock group began the North American portion of their Saviors Tour.

The band, along with the incredible supporting group The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and The Linda Lindas, began their two-month tour. However, while singing their smash song American Idiot with altered lyrics, their lead singer Billie Armstrong held up an "inappropriate" Trump face mask.

Armstrong then held it by the top and then threw it into the crowd. In the viral videos from the concert, the audience seemed to have cheered with applause.

The incident took place less than a month after a potential assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. Trump was shot in the right ear, and he barely made it out of the place.

This wasn't the first time the band did something like this. They have a long history of criticizing the past president. Since 2016, they have performed numerous gigs with this modified verse to troll Trump.

The band performed the song live on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve this year and used the newly altered lyrics. It further disparaged Trump's followers at the same gathering by referring to them as "rednecks."

Green Day chanted "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA" during their performance of Bang Bang at the 2016 American Music Awards. They first used altered lyrics at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

The recent stunt with the Trump mask happened within three weeks of Trump's accident, leading to boycott calls and comments that the band's music has lost its charm and "sucks" now.