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Green Day rocked Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., ahead of Super Bowl LX as the NFL honors past Super Bowl MVPs.
The punk rock band played “Holiday” and “American Idiot” — two of their most political songs — to fans trickling in before kickoff. However, the band refrained from taking a jab at President Donald Trump and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during their performance.
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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs at Super Bowl LX between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026 (Carlos Barria/Reuters via Imagn Images)
NFL and Green Day fans who tuned in to the performance hoped the group would draw more criticism for Trump and his administration with millions watching around the world.
One X user wrote that it was “b—h move” to avoid any politics.
“Green Day skipping the entire middle of ‘American Idiot’ with the ‘anti maga’ lyrics when they had the chance to sing it in front of millions during the current political state of our country is such a slob, sorry,” the X user wrote.
Another X user shared similar sentiments.
“Green Day could have blown the s— up more than just making two political songs and cutting the sauce out of them,” they wrote on X.
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Green Day performs before the start of the game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026. (Darren Yamashita/Imagn Images)
One user wrote that Green Day failed to do anything “meaningful”.
“Green Day turning out to be performative losers was a pretty big disappointment,” the person wrote. “They talk a lot of talk, but when they get the opportunity to play the biggest event in America, they don’t say ANYTHING meaningful. What a joke of a band.”
Some BlueSky users were just as annoyed with the band.
“‘American Idiot’ is still breaking, but Green Day skipped the ‘siege to the president’ part of ‘Holiday;’ Roger Goodell must have told Billie Joe he has a sniper trained on him from the rafters,” one person wrote on the platform.
Former NFL player Chris Kluwe added, “Green Day reigned supreme, although I was hoping they’d play the second verse of ‘American Idiot’.”
Green Day’s pre-Super Bowl performance didn’t seem to be enough.
The band played a pregame party Friday night at Pier 29 in San Francisco, where frontman Billie Joe Armstrong spoke out strongly against ICE agents.
“To all the ICE agents out there, wherever you are, quit your s—-yas job. Say the s—-y job you have,” Armstrong said during the show.
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day looks on from the field before Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots at Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, California. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
“Because when this is over — and it will be over at some point — Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’re going to drop you like a bad f—–g habit. Get on this side of the line.”
Armstrong also said the show is “going out to Minneapolis” amid the protests and killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. He also changed the text of “Holiday” from “the representative from California has the floor” to “the representative from Epstein Island has the floor.”
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Armstrong has previously been critical of the president. He has compared Trump to Hitler, and the band often changes the line “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” from the 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” in recent live performances.
