Overview

• During Green Day’s June 13 headline performance at Donington Park, Armstrong urged fans to fight back against U.S. “fascism” and led them in calling President Trump a “fat bastard.”
• He altered the lyrics of “American Idiot” to denounce Elon Musk’s “agenda” and sang a slur referencing Vice President JD Vance.
• More than five million Americans joined “No Kings” protests on June 14 to criticize Trump administration policies just as the president presided over a Washington D.C. military parade.
• Armstrong has previously shown solidarity with Los Angeles demonstrators opposing ICE raids and National Guard deployments by sharing protest footage on social media.
• A broader wave of artists—from Finneas to Kim Gordon and Doechii—has added their voices to the cultural pushback against the administration, while OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder dismissed the rallies as a “super bummer.”