Musk Blasts Green Day For Selling Out To Establishment

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk called out punk-lite rock band Green Day for changing lyrics to a song to vilify former President Donald Trump and his followers. The group was part of ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve performance.

Posting on his X platform, formerly Twitter, Musk noted that “Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it.” He followed the pointed criticism with a barrage of laughing emojis.

The SpaceX and Tesla owner has a point. Gone are the days when leftist bands plant their musical flags against the establishment.

As Green Day proved, instead they urge their aging followers to blindly march in lockstep with Washington’s power elites.

Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong changed the lyrics of the hit song “American Idiot” in the Sunday night performance. Instead of the original “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda,” he belted “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”

The early 2000’s tune first targeted former President George W. Bush. That is the latest example of the band’s long history of slamming conservative leaders dating back to its founding in California’s East Bay in 1987.

Armstrong, whose great uncle Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon, compared Trump to Adolf Hitler in a 2016 interview.

The singer told Kerrang! Magazine that “the worst problem I see about Trump is who his followers are. I actually feel bad for them because they’re poor, working-class people who can’t get a leg up. They’re just [angry] and he’s preyed on their anger.”

The Green Day frontman accused the former president of presenting himself as the only option and promising “to take care of it myself.” This he equated to the fascist German leader.

Then, in a 2018 concert in France, he told the audience that he “[expletive] hate[d] Donald Trump so much.”

Interestingly, Elon Musk has never come out forcefully for one side of the political aisle or the other. He is also on record criticizing various Trump policies in the past.

However, the Biden administration is clearly hostile to the Tesla owner as he is in direct competition with their unionized base. He also took flak from liberal elites over his commitment to free speech on the X social media platform and appears to align more with conservatives of late.