Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is joining the chorus of voices in the music industry speaking out against Trump, and even called our new president “Illuminati” on the radio. The front man may have been in Europe on Election Day, but was just as shocked as the rest of us on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning when it became clear that Trump would be elected.
“I fell asleep, and at 6 a.m. I woke up choking… I look at my phone and I was like, ‘Oh, this is not good,’ ‘cause usually I get like four every day. All my friends and family, everybody was freaked out because they just elected a fascist into the White House for the first time in American history. It’s all sinking in right now,” he said to host Chris Moyles on Radio X.
Moyles then joked on air, “The only thing we can hope for is the Illuminati really does exist and there’s a bunch of men sitting around a boardroom table going, ‘We’re in charge, you are just a figurehead.’”
“The problem is he might just be a puppet for their own agenda,” Armstrong said. “Which, I dunno, I think could be even scarier. Not that I’m going to go down a scary road right now.”
Armstrong also took to his Instagram to release a thoughtful post chronicling just how he felt about Trump’s win.
Green Day also recently released their latest album, Revolution Radio, which ironically contained no songs about Trump. The front man explained that Trump inspires him to do nothing, and that’s why there were no songs about him on the album. He also praised Clinton saying that she had the most progressive platform that the country has ever seen.