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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 03:19 PM Jan 2017

Green Days Troubled Times Video Is A Searing Anti-Trump Protest For MLK Jr. Day

Green Day have made it very clear that they do not appreciate the president-elect of the United States. From their AMA protest performance that saw them chanting “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist U.S.A.,” to Billie Joe Armstrong simply stating, “I f***ing hate Donald Trump,” the last few months have been as politically-minded as ever for the trio that brought us American Idiot more than a decade ago.

To continue with the anti-Trump stance, as well as to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Green Day have released a new lyric video for Revolution Radio cut “Troubled Times.” Of the new video, Armstrong said in a press release “Today we celebrate love and compassion more than ever.” The video combines historical images of Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as various protests and other movements in the name of civil rights for all individuals, along with a stop-motion video of Donald Trump whose head appears to be on fire beneath a “Make America Great Again” hat. Throughout the clip, people are holding signs that promote equality: “Stop racism, islamophobia, and war,” “No border wall,” “Against racist hate.” There’s also a somewhat obscured image of an American flag with the fifty stars spinning and morphing into question marks, then into swastikas.

http://uproxx.com/music/green-day-troubled-times-video-anti-trump/


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Green Days Troubled Times Video Is A Searing Anti-Trump Protest For MLK Jr. Day (Original Post) octoberlib Jan 2017 OP
K&R Great Message MagickMuffin Jan 2017 #1
K&R 2naSalit Jan 2017 #2
Good tune. Great video. KittyWampus Jan 2017 #3
They wrote American Idiot about Bush so I expect Trump will octoberlib Jan 2017 #5
K&R demmiblue Jan 2017 #4
I saw Green Day a couple of weeks ago. They are not Trump fans. Initech Jan 2017 #6
I see them two months from now. herding cats Jan 2017 #7
I'm going to see them in April in San Diego. Initech Jan 2017 #9
I've been a Green Day fan since way back. I haven't seen them yet, though. octoberlib Jan 2017 #8

Initech

(100,088 posts)
9. I'm going to see them in April in San Diego.
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 04:48 PM
Jan 2017

I saw them here at the KROQ Christmas show and had a blast. Green Day are always awesome live!

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