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Green Day rocked Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California ahead of Super Bowl LX as the NFL honors Super Bowl MVPs of the past.
The punk rock band played “Holiday” and “American Idiot” — two of their most political songs — for fans who flocked before kickoff. However, the group refrained from attacking President Donald Trump and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during their performance.
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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs during Super Bowl LX between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026. (Carlos Barria/Reuters via Imagn Images)
NFL and Green Day fans who watched the show were hoping the group would have more criticism of Trump and his administration, in front of millions watching around the world.
One X user wrote that it was a “b—h move” to avoid all politics.
“Green Day skipping the entire middle of ‘American Idiot’ with the lyrics ‘anti maga’ when they had the chance to sing it in front of millions of people in the current political state of our country is such a bitchy move, sorry,” wrote user X.
Another X user shared similar sentiments.
“Green Day could have blown this shit up more than by making two political songs and cutting the sauce out of them,” they wrote on X.
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Green Day performs before the start of the game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026. (Darren Yamashita/Imagn Images)
One user wrote that Green Day hadn’t done anything “significant.”
“Green Day turning out to be a performative loser was a pretty big disappointment,” the person wrote. “They talk a lot, but when given the opportunity to play at the biggest event in America, they say NOTHING of significance. What a complete joke of a band.”
Some BlueSky users were equally annoyed by the group.
“‘American Idiot’ is still in tatters but Green Day skipped the ‘sieg heil to the president’ part of ‘Holiday’ ;’ Roger Goodell must have told Billie Joe that there was a sniper pointed at him from the rafters,” one person wrote on the platform.
Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe added: “Green Day ruled, although I was hoping they were going to play the second verse of ‘American Idiot’.”
Green Day’s performance before the Super Bowl doesn’t seem to be enough.
The band performed at a pregame party Friday night at Pier 29 in San Francisco, where frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made a strong statement against ICE agents.
“To all the ICE agents, wherever you are, quit your damn job. Quit the damn job that you have,” Armstrong said during the show.
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day watches from the field before Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots at Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
“Because when this is all over – and it will be over at some point – Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’ll drop you like a bad habit. Come to this side of the line.”
Armstrong also said the show was “going to Minneapolis” amid protests and the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. He also changed the lyrics of “Holiday” from “the representative from California has the floor” to “the representative from Epstein’s island has the floor.”
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Armstrong has criticized the president in the past. He has compared Trump to Hitler, and the band frequently changes the line “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” from its 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” in more recent live performances.
