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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong plays national anthem and leads chant of “Fuck Donald Trump” on Independence Day

By Surej Singh Jul 7, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has led chants of “fuck Donald Trump” during a show in Belgium on the Fourth of July – check out footage of the moment below.

Last Friday (July 4), Green Day headlined Rock Werchter in Belgium – the show coincided with the Fourth of July, better known as the United States’ Independence Day. The punk legends kicked off their set with ‘American Idiot’, during which they tweaked lyrics to call out President Donald Trump: “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda” – something the band have done for several years now.

After ‘American Idiot’, they transitioned into ‘Holiday’, during which frontman Billie Joe Armstrong led chants of “fuck Donald Trump” during an extended jam – fans have uploaded footage of this moment onto social media. Check it out below.

Later in the show, Armstrong played a small snippet of America’s national anthem, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ before launching into ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’. He sang: “By the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we hailed, at the twilight’s last gleaming?”

Earlier in the day, Trump had also signed his much-criticised One Big Beautiful Bill into law. According to the White House, the bill includes “the largest tax cut in history for middle- and working-classing Americans”, “hiring thousands of new ICE officers and Border Patrol agents”, “blocking illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid”, “funding the Golden Dome missile defense system” and “mordernising” the military.

However, the One Big Beautiful Bill also cuts funding from SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which helps struggling families obtain food and negative changes to Medicaid, a programme that covers healthcare for low-income, elderly and disabled Americans. Per the BBC, these changes will “result in nearly 12million losing coverage in the next decade”.

Armstrong and co. have long been vocal critics of Trump and his policies. Early in June, the frontman took to social media to speak out against Trump’s authorising of ICE raids across Los Angeles: “Fuck off.” Less than two weeks later, Green Day slammed Trump and Elon Musk at their Download Festival headline set, asking the crowd to call Trump a “fat bastard”, also telling them: “Ladies and gentlemen, we are slipping into fascism… it’s up to us to fight back!”

Back at the American Music Awards (AMA) in 2016, the band led a chant of “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA”, and went on to announce a limited-time sale of a t-shirt featuring Trump‘s mugshot for charity in 2023.

In the lead-up to last year’s US Presidential elections, Armstrong had urgently encouraged fans to vote for Kamala Harris instead: “Vote for Harris. I think there’s probably a lot of things that people disagree with, but the one thing that we do agree on, is Trump has got to go and we need to turn the page.”

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