Green Day is promoting shirts with Donald Trump’s just lately taken mugshot on them.
The shirts’ design borrows from the duvet of the band’s 1997 album, Nimrod, however with Trump’s picture positioned in it. According to an Instagram publish from Green Day, the merch shall be out there for a restricted time solely, and proceeds shall be donated to Greater Good Music, a charity working to ship reduction to these affected by the Maui fires.
Trump, who surrendered to authorities in Georgia earlier this week on greater than a dozen prices associated to his efforts to overturn 2020 election ends in that state, was launched from jail on a $200,000 bond. Since being booked, he has shared his mugshot on social media and his web site.
Green Day, who as soon as took on former president George Bush and the struggle in Iraq, has not been shy about utilizing their platform to voice their beliefs. “People know how I feel. I feel like going negative is just throwing fuel on the fire,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong stated to Rolling Stone in 2017, not lengthy after Trump’s presidency started. “For me, it’s important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It’s like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show. At the same time, I’m not going to puss out on saying what I feel about [Trump] and his administration.”
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