A TikTok user on the trendy social network recently applied Green Day s 2004 anti-Bush song American Idiot to a video supporting the currently outgoing U.S. president, Donald Trump.
The utilization s seemingly at odds with the song s spirit, yet it s one that others have employed via the platform before.
Understandably, plenty of Green Day s fans on the video-sharing service took exception with the usage. And they ve made their own TikToks arguing against a pro-Trump reading of the song.
On Jan. 9, TikTok creator Candace Kettlehut posted a video of her mouthing the bridge section of the
American Idiot title track while sharing a Trumpian interpretation of its lyrics, as The Daily Dot pointed out. (The particular portion of the track duplicates its first verse, with some variations.)