Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong says Trump gives him diarrhea: 'I don’t want to write a song about it'
Billie Joe Armstrong, popular rock band Green Day's lead singer, slammed President Donald Trump in a recent interview, claiming he takes "no inspiration" from the 45th president of the country because "there's nothing" to take inspiration from.
The singer admitted that some of the songs from Green Day's upcoming record 'Father of all Motherfuckers' were about Trump's America. The rock star also added that he refused to write a song directly about Trump.
"I draw no inspiration from the president of the United States, because he’s just… there’s nothing,” Armstrong told Kerrang, a British weekly magazine. “Trump gives me diarrhea, you know? I don’t want to write a song about it!”
The singer, however, added that the new song 'Bulletproof Backpack,' which features a sample from singer-songwriter Joan Jett, is about the environment Trump's Republican party and their rhetoric has created. The political environment in the country is deeply divided, Armstrong suggested.
"It’s sort of about being freaked out around the polarisation that we live in right now,” he explained, “whether it’s kids getting shot in schools, or the closest thing that America has ever seen to Fascism.”
Other celebrity critics of Trump include actors Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro and actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Carrey, who generally sketches political cartoons taking a jibe at Trump and his administration, recently released his latest anti-Trump artwork, which depicted the president face-deep in a toilet bowl, cleaning an excrement-filled pot of his "scandals". The sketch, posted on December 23, showed an angry POTUS wielding a toilet brush inside a toilet whose rim is lined with brown blotches inscribed with alleged charges that Carrey believed were linked to Trump.
"And what's wrong with toilets these days? Ya have to flush 15 times and no matter how hard you scrub them… the poop sticks! Out damn spot, out, I say!" the caption around the toilet reads, in an apparent reference to Trump's statement during an interview where he appeared irked about the water pressure in toilets.