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