Trump hating rock band Green Day made their stance on the president clear during their headlining performance on the second night of Coachella 2025.
In a moment that echoed the band’s long history of political commentary, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong adjusted a lyric from their 2004 hit “American Idiot,” turning “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” into “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.”
This wasn’t the first time they’ve made the change. The band previously sang the altered lyric during a nationally televised New Year’s Eve event in 2024.
For Green Day, it seems “American Idiot” continues to serve as a ready-made platform for calling out political figures.
Recently, Armstrong delivered a raging tirade against Trump and tech CEO Elon Musk during a March performance in Melbourne, part of the group’s “Saviors Tour.”
“Don’t you want these f***ing politicians to shut the f*** up?” Armstrong asked the crowd. “Don’t you want Elon Musk to shut the f*** up? Don’t you want Donald Trump to shut the f*** up?”
“I’m not gonna get angry. F*** that s**t. We don’t need to see what’s on Twitter. This is about us, everybody together,” he raged on.** **
Later in the performance, he added, “We’re going to put all of our differences away right now. Australia, you’re not as f***ed up as America.”
During their Coachella performance, the band also changed the lyrics of “Jesus of Suburbia” to reference the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Armstrong crooned “Runnin’ away from violence like the kids from Palestine,” instead of the original lyric, “Runnin away from pain when you’ve been victimized.”
In a Grammy Awards interview with Billboard, Armstrong explained the reasoning behind the lyric changes.
“I think American Idiot is like—it takes on a life of its own,” he said. “And so anytime that there’s like, you know, for a protest song, anytime that there’s trouble in the world and times of uncertainty I think a lot of people connect to that song.”
“So, you know, you can change a lyric here or change it there and then all of a sudden it just becomes current again,” Armstrong concluded.
Green Day wasn’t the only act taking aim at Donald Trump this past weekend.
During her appearance on Saturday Night Live, pop artist Lizzo wore a crop top with the word “TARIFFIED” emblazoned on it—a reference to the new Trump-era trade policies.
Before performing her 2025 song “Still Bad,” she announced, “It’s the end of the world!” and then delivered the lyric, “Let’s turn this pain into some champagne, baby. Like cheers, bitch, it’s been a day.”
Meanwhile, SNL’s cold open took direct aim at Trump’s economic record. In an Easter-themed sketch parodying the biblical “Cleansing of the Temple,” Trump, portrayed by James Austin Johnson, declared, “The money’s gone,” before comparing himself to Christ.
“It’s me, your favorite president, Donald Jesus Trump… Many people are even calling me the Messiah because of the mess-I-uh made out of the economy,” faux Trump stated.
The parody continued with a jab at market volatility: “The stock market did a Jesus. It died, then on the third day it was risen, and then on the fourth day it died again, possibly never to return, just like Jesus.”
Johnson’s Trump also quipped, “Jesus Christ is the name we’ve been saying a lot lately. We look at our 401(k) and say ‘Jesus Christ, where did it all go?’”
“I don’t know but we’re gonna fix that. Or not. We’ll see. Should be interesting,” he concluded.
And the Trump jokes didn’t stop there. Actress and former “Daily Show” correspondent Olivia Munn returned to the show to appear in a satirical segment on trade policy.
Mocking Trump’s tariff strategies, Munn told host Desi Lydic: “He put tariffs that destroyed the global economy, so then he took them off, and now it’s only mostly destroyed.”
“Now, to avoid tariffs coming back, other countries will cut deals with us for better trade terms, and our deficit drops to zero. Problem solved,” Munn continued.
Lydic questioned if that’s when the United States drops all the tariffs, which Munn quickly shut down.
“Then we hit them even harder—400 percent tariffs. We bomb their factories. We catch those penguins on that island and we eat them,” she sarcastically responded.
Her mock scenario escalated to absurdity, ending with: “Ikea furniture comes assembled. Honda Accords, trunks full of Nike sneakers. We’ll get to pee on their currency while they watch. Then we won.”