“Come on to this side of the line,” Armstrong added.
Super Bowl LX is taking place amid the backdrop of mass protests against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration surge in cities across the country. The deaths of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti last month at the hands of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis have further inflamed tensions.
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made a direct appeal to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to quit their jobs and warned that the Trump administration will one day “drop” them.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong warns ICE officers that Trump admin will drop them ‘like a bad f***ing habit’
At a show in San Francisco to kick off the Super Bowl weekend, Armstrong gave the crowd a potential preview of Sunday’s performance
“This goes out to all the ICE agents, wherever you are,” Armstrong said. “Quit your s***ty ass job. Quit that s***ty job you have. Because when this is over, and it will be over at some point in time, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump — they’re gonna drop you like a bad f***ing habit.”
During Friday’s show, Armstrong also referenced the Jeffrey Epstein scandal by changing the lyrics of the band’s hit, Holiday. “The representative from Epstein Island has the floor,” Armstrong sang, and dedicated the song to Minneapolis.
- President Donald Trump will not be attending and recently revealed that he is not a fan of Green Day or Bad Bunny, who is headlining the halftime show.
- “I’m anti-them,” Trump said.
- “I think it’s a terrible choice.
- All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
Armstrong’s message comes as MAGA is preparing to host the All-American Halftime Show, organized by Turning Point USA, in protest of the Super Bowl music acts. Artists Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett are scheduled to perform.
Puerto Rican native Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has also condemned ICE ahead of Sunday’s game.
- “Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ICE out,” he said at the Grammys last weekend during an acceptance speech for Best Musica Urbana Album.
- “The only thing that’s more powerful than hate is love,” he said.
- “So please we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love.”
There were fears that ICE agents would be deployed to the Super Bowl after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in September that officers would be “all over” the event following the announcement of Bad Bunny as the headline act.
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- “There are no known, no planned ICE or immigration enforcement operations that are scheduled at the Super Bowl or any of the Super Bowl-related events,” Lanier said Tuesday.
- “Our Department of Homeland Security, who’s been our partner for more than 20 years now and is made up of more than 20 different departments, will send a variety of different agencies. It does not include ICE.”
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Rolling Stone: MUSIC NOW Green Day Hates Trump. Are You Really Surprised?
The MAGA world went on a days-long meltdown after Billie Joe Armstrong dissed them on New Year's Eve. We try to figure out why — and what it says about the 2024 election
ON NEW YEAR’S Eve, we learned the improbable fact that a trio of middle-aged, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted punks in notably well-tailored suits can somehow still shock and offend the masses. For Green Day, all it took was changing the “American Idiot” lyric “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during their performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest — a lyric tweak they’ve been using for years.
The ensuing freakout on social media and conservative news channels went on for days, with some commentators seeming to be downright stunned that Billie Joe Armstrong holds the left-of-center political views he’s been quite clear about for decades. “Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” Elon Musk wrote on X.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we try to make sense of the outsized reaction to Green Day’s performance — and take a look ahead at what it says about the role musicians might play in this year’s presidential campaign, with Andy Greene joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. To hear the full episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play above.)
In the episode, we look back at similar meltdowns in the recent past, including when right-wingers accused Rage Against the Machine, of all people, of “going woke” when it appeared their concerts had vaccine mandates.
We also ponder how the current left-wing backlash against Joe Biden might affect musicians’ decisions about publicly endorsing him or performing at fundraisers; wonder how performers will find fresh things to say about Donald Trump in his third campaign for president; and debate what role Taylor Swift might end up playing in the election.
(Dick Clark Productions, which produces New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between PMC and Eldrige. PMC is the parent company of Rolling Stone.)
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