WATCH: Green Day’s Billie Joe calls the Republicans "a white nationalist party"
The band drop by Kerrang! Radio for a chat
In a fresh interview with Kerrang! Radio, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has aimed some of his strongest words yet at Donald Trump.
Billie Joe, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool dropped by for a chat with Jake Thomson on the breakfast show this morning (16th November) to talk about new album ‘Revolution Radio’ and, naturally, the subject soon moved on to the President-elect.
Still reeling from the election results, Billie Joe told Jake: “A lot of people are really freaked out and angry and confused. The vote was obviously kind of a protest vote for the people that actually voted him into office too because the establishment politics are so corrupt right now.
“But it’s hard because they voted in a dictator – someone that’s literally the first true fascist that America’s ever voted into office.”
He continued: “When Obama came in we didn’t vote against George Bush because he was white… we voted against his policies. With Donald Trump his platform started with saying that (Obama) wasn’t a US citizen – with that said he might as well as been calling him the n-bomb.”
Reflecting upon Trump’s proposed wall between the US and Mexico, Billie Joe added: “It’s basically like an introduction into some form of grotesque ethnic cleansing. The Republican Party is now officially a white nationalist party – no doubt about it, you can’t whitewash that. It’s very scary times.”
In an interview with Kerrang! back in October, Billie Joe compared Trump to Hitler and has verbally bashed him at live shows including at New Jersey Starland Ballroom and the MTV EMAs.
Elsewhere in the interview, the trio talked about the recording of ‘Revolution Radio’ plus their plans for their upcoming UK shows. Watch it in full here:
While at Kerrang! Radio Towers, Green Day also took part in a game of ‘Green Day or Nay?’ where Jake challenged them to identify their own songs from a very short audio clip.
Watch it here: