Legendary punk rock band Inexperienced Day took a significant swipe at Vice President JD Vance throughout a current efficiency of one among their traditional songs.
As famous by Rolling Stone and different shops, whereas taking part in “Jesus of Suburbia” in Melbourne, Australia, over the weekend, the band modified the phrases to counsel that Vance was “r—d.”
“Am I r—d or am I just JD Vance?” lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong sang as an alternative of the unique lyrics, “Am I r—d or just overjoyed?”
The band’s set included a number of different political factors, with digs geared toward billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, and a line suggesting their help of Ukraine following the nation’s botched take care of the U.S. final week.
At one other level in “Jesus of Suburbia,” Armstrong sang, “We are the kids of war and peace, From Ukraine to the Middle East,” as an alternative of the unique lyrics, “We are the kids of war and peace/ From Anaheim to the Middle East.”
With each Ukraine and Vance talked about within the track, plainly the band was commenting on the tense Oval Workplace assembly between the Trump administration and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, throughout which the vice chairman accused the Ukrainian chief of disrespecting Trump.
The assembly grew heated between the world leaders, prompting Trump to ship Zelenskyy again to Europe with out both signing a uncommon earth minerals deal between the 2 nations as initially deliberate. Liberals jumped responsible Trump and Vance for the fallout.
A Inexperienced Day fan account on Instagram additionally shared a clip of the Melbourne set throughout which Armstrong requested the gang, “Don’t you want Elon Musk to shut the f— up?”
“Don’t you want Donald Trump to shut the f— up?” he requested. He then added, “Nah, nah, nah, I’m not going to get angry. F— that s—.”
Inexperienced Day has been no stranger to expressing their political views onstage, and the band has typically modified lyrics to mock Trump or different controversial matters.
Following the overturning of Roe V. Wade in 2022, Armstrong informed a crowd throughout a London live performance that he could be renouncing his U.S. citizenship and shifting there.
“F— America, I’m f—ing renouncing my citizenship,” Armstrong stated. “I’m f—ing coming here.”
“There’s just too much f—ing stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f—ing excuse for a country,” Armstrong added. “Oh, I’m not kidding. You’re going to get a lot of me in the coming days.”
He additionally referred to as the Supreme Court docket Justices “pricks” and stated, “f— the Supreme Court of America.”
Throughout a efficiency on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” final 12 months, the band modified the lyrics to their 2004 hit “American Idiot,” with Armstrong singing, “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda,” as an alternative of the unique, “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda.”
Armstrong carried out the identical swapped-out lyrics in the course of the Melbourne present as properly, and in a efficiency in South Africa earlier this 12 months, modified the unique lyrics to “I’m not a part of an Elon agenda.”
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
