As an avid Green Day fan since childhood, I was incredibly hyped to hear that they would be performing at the Super Bowl this year, especially with the band’s history of being politically outspoken, a lot of which has been targeted at the Trump administration.

When President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, the band led a “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.” chant at the American Music Awards. Recently Billy Joe Armstrong changed the lyrics in “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” in reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

At the Super Bowl though, they were pretty tame, possibly due to restrictions placed by organizers.

The band’s set consisted of shortened versions of three of their songs which played before kick-off.

They opened with “Holiday” to a raucous crowd and cheers, then went into “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” which is my personal favorite and closed with “American Idiot.” And despite the censored version playing on live TV, they still included the lyric “the subliminal mindfuck America.”

The song originally came out after 9/11 and is a commentary on the government taking advantage of societal hysteria through the passage of the Patriot Act.

Immediately following the performance, the internet was taken by storm with people’s assumption that Armstrong shouted, “Trump’s a racist,” before the instrumental solo in “American Idiot.” While I do believe that is something he would do at a regular concert, it is very clear that he shouted “Let’s go crazy.”

I thoroughly enjoyed watching them open the Super Bowl, and found it hilarious that the idea of them and Bad Bunny performing at the event was protested so heavily, even by Trump himself.