Green Day takes aim at President-elect Donald Trump in its latest video.
A clip from the âTroubled Timesâ video, which the punk rock band posted online on Monday, shows a Trump-like figure in a red âMake America Great Againâ cap apparently spewing antagonistic rhetoric to crowds.
KKK rallies, footage of civil rights movement protests and people holding âStop racism, Islamophobia and warâ signs are interspersed in the trippy video, which is now going viral.
âA new day dawning. Comes without warning. So donât think twice. We live in troubled times,â frontman Billie Joe Armstrong sings. The clip ends ominously, with someone pressing a big red button to cause a gigantic mushroom cloud.
The video is decidedly apocalyptic, but the band said in an accompanying statement that, âToday we celebrate love and compassion more than ever.â
While the group doesnât mention Trump by name in the video or song from its album âRevolution Radio,â it has not been shy about criticizing the former reality television personality in the past.
At the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards, the day before the presidential election, they changed the words to their 2004 hit âAmerican Idiotâ from âsubliminal mind-fuck Americaâ to âsubliminal mind-Trump America.â
And two weeks later at the American Music Awards, the rockers added the extra line of âNo Trump, no KKK, no fascist USAâ while performing âBang Bang.â
CORRECTION: This article previously misstated the name of Green Dayâs album as âRevolution Road.â It is âRevolution Radio.â