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Green Day’s Anti-Trump Chant Was A Surprise To AMA Producers

LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 20: Singer Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs onstage the 2016 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/AMA2016/Getty Images for dcp)

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You're not going to believe this, but the producers of a middle-of-the-road music awards show did not expect one of their performers to blast the President-Elect of the United States or to cover a band called Millions Of Dead Cops.

Last night at the American Music Awards, Green Day ended their performance of their new single "Bang Bang" with an anti-Trump chant -- "No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!" -- that was also a reference to punk legends MDC's "Born To Die." And now TMZ reports that the band didn't include the chant when they rehearsed their performance. When they chanted it during the show's live broadcast, ABC executives were "completely off-guard."

Watch again below.

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