Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong slams the US and says he’s ‘renouncing his citizenship’
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong blasted ‘f*** America’ following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs Wade which put an end to guaranteed abortion rights in the US
Billie Joe Armstrong condemned the decision to overturn Roe vs Wade
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Billie Joe Armstrong has hit out at the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs Wade from 50 years ago, which put an end to guaranteed abortion rights stateside.
The Green Day singer, 50, is so infuriated with the decision that he told a London crowd on Friday that he’s planning to move to the UK and blasted: “F*** America.”
The musician told the audience: “F*** America. I’m f***ing renouncing my citizenship. I’m f***ing coming here.
“There’s just too much f***ing stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f***ing excuse for a country.’
He added: “Oh, I’m not kidding, you’re going to get a lot of me in the coming days.”
It’s not the first time he’s used the stage to air his discontent over political issues.
He had previously called out former President Donald Trump for “holding half the country hostage”.
Billie Joe Armstrong used the stage to criticise the ruling
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His album titled American Idiot was also created as a criticism to another former president, George W. Bush, and the Iraq War.
And he isn’t the only celeb to be calling out the latest decision either, with the likes of Billie Eilish, Viola Davis and Michelle Obama all airing their disgust.
Pop icon Madonna, 63, also spoke out on the ruling on Sunday, confessing she’s in “deep despair” and “scared” for her four daughters.
She wrote on her Instagram : “I woke up [Friday] to the terrifying news that Roe v. Wade had been overturned and that legislation has decided that we no longer have rights as women over our bodies.
“This decision has plunged me and every other woman in this country into deep despair. Now the supreme court has decided that women’s rights are no longer constitutional rights. In fact we have less rights [than] a gun. I am scared for my daughters.”
Olivia Rodrigo also took to the stage at Glastonbury at the weekend and was joined by Lily Allen who dedicated her song F*** You to the Supreme Court Justices.
Tre Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day
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The American singer told her fans before the before sang: “I’m devastated and terrified and so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this.
“I wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who have showed us that at the end of the day, they truly don’t give a s**t about freedom.
“This song goes out to the Justices.”
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