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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Celebrates 4th of July With ‘F–k Donald Trump’ Chant in Belgium

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong celebrated the 4th of July by leading the crowd at Belgium's Rock Werchter Festival in a 'F--k Donald Trump' Chant.

“ F– Donald Trump,” Armstrong encouraged the audience to chant in the middle of a performance of “Holiday,” the latest in the singer’s repeated broadsides against the American president. As has become customary, Armstrong also once again tweaked the lyrics to the band’s signature political bombtrack, “American Idiot,” shouting “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.” In a seeming nod to Jimi Hendrix’s legendarily incendiary performance of the “Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1969, Armstrong played a touchingly gentle bit of the National Anthem, singing high and sweet about the “dawn’s early light” while plucking out the melody on an electric guitar.

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