"this song is anti-fascism. This song is anti-war. We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota... Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Miller now has the floor."
""I'm not a part of a redneck agenda," "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda.""
"And I don't want to be out of water tonight, but I wrote this song as an ode to American possibility: both to the beautiful but flawed country that we are, and to the country that we could be. Now, right now, we are living through incredibly critical times. The United States, the ideals and the values for which it stood for the past 250 years, is being tested as it has never been in modern times. Those values and those ideals have never been as endangered as they are right now."
Green Day performed at Los Angeles' ALTer EGO festival and explicitly framed songs as political statements, labeling "Holiday" anti-fascism and anti-war and expressing solidarity with Minnesota. The band altered lyrics in "American Idiot" to replace references with a direct critique of the MAGA agenda. Bruce Springsteen appeared at Red Bank's Count Basie Theater for Light of Day WinterFest, dedicated "The Promised Land" to Renee Good who was killed by an ICE agent on January 7, and sharply criticized the Trump administration, warning that American ideals and values are being tested and endangered in current times.
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