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Green Day kicked off Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, CA tonight. After the performance was announced last month, the East Bay punk band’s booking got flak from President Donald Trump, who was already annoyed that Bad Bunny would headline the Halftime Show.
Green Day have long been outspoken against Trump, with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong regularly changing the “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” lyric in their 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.” Even back in 2016, Armstrong compared the president to Adolf Hitler in an NME interview and led a “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” chant during Green Day’s American Music Awards performance of “Bang Bang.”
Armstrong made his sentiments extra clear at a FanDuel and Spotify pre-game gig in San Fransisco on Friday (Feb. 6): “To all the ICE agents out there, wherever you are, quit your shitty-ass job,” Armstrong said. “Quit that shitty 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 fucking habit. Come on this side of the line.” At that show, he also dedicated “Holiday” to Minneapolis, and changed the lyric “the representative from California has the floor” to “the representative from Epstein Island has the floor.”
Tonight at Levi’s Stadium, Green Day’s six-minute set steered clear of anti-MAGA and anti-ICE statements, but did play their Bush-era indictment “American Idiot” and got bleeped during “subliminal mindfuck America.” It was the band’s closer after an instrumental snippet of “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)” (which soundtracked past Super Bowl MVPs taking the field) then “Holiday” and “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.” Watch below.
Before the ceremony, Coco Jones sang “Lift Every Voice And Sing,” which was added to Super Bowl programming in 2020. Following Green Day, Brandi Carlile performed “America The Beautiful” and Charlie Puth did the national anthem with Kenny G.