Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong tells ICE staff to ‘quit that job’

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has a strong message for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers: the quicker you quit that “s*****” job, the better.

While performing at a pre Super Bowl party event on 6 February, the bisexual band leader, 53, shared a message intended for ICE agents across the US.

“This goes out to all of the ICE agents out there or wherever you are. Quit that s***** job that you have,” he urged, in a video clip captured by The Tennessee Holler.

“Because when this is over, and it will be over at some point in time, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’re gonna drop you like a bad f****** habit. Come on this side of the line.”

The pre Super Bowl event where the band performed was sponsored by Spotify, which has faced mounting criticism in recent months for running ICE recruitment ads throughout 2025. The streaming service confirmed in January that the ad campaign is no longer active on the platform.

Elsewhere during Green Day’s set, which came two days prior to the band performing ahead of Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, Armstrong changed numerous lyrics to reflect his stance on the state of America. 

While performing their 2004 hit “American Idiot”, Billy Joe Armstrong replaced the lyric “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” with “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda,” per Variety. During their rendition of 2005 song “Holiday”, Armstrong changed the interlude from “the representative from California has the floor” to “the representative from Epstein Island has the floor”.

Since coming back into power in January 2025, Trump has employed an aggressive anti-immigration stance, increasing the presence of ICE agents nationwide and promising to remove millions of “illegal aliens” from the streets of America.

In October, Trump’s secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem stated that ICE agents would be present at the Super Bowl for Bad Bunny’s performance. NFL bosses shut down the claim and promised that there was to be no planned ICE activity at the big game.

During the game on Sunday (8 February), Trump hit out at Bad Bunny, who is Puerto Rican, for what he dubbed a “disgusting” performance and the “worst ever” Half Time show. Trump took particular issue with Bad Bunny performing primarily in Spanish, suggesting that “no one” could understand what he was singing.

Green Day and Bad Bunny are among a growing list of musicians to call out the presence of ICE on the streets of America. Earlier this month, after winning the Album of the Year Grammy award for his record DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, Bad Bunny began his acceptance speech by urging “ICE out”.

“The only thing that’s more powerful than hate is love,” he said.

“So, please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. We don’t hate them. We love our people. We love our family and there’s a way to do it, with love, and don’t forget that.”

Also at the Grammy Awards, Billie Eilish had stronger words, telling the audience: “F*** ICE.”

“As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land,” she continued. “I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and the people matter, and f*** ICE. That’s all I’m going to say.”

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