{"id":16860,"date":"2022-07-02T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/?p=16860"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T08:46:39","slug":"green-day-frontman-says-hes-renouncing-us-citizenship-im-not-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/green-day-frontman-says-hes-renouncing-us-citizenship-im-not-kidding\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Day frontman says he\u2019s renouncing US citizenship: \u2018I\u2019m not kidding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said that he plans to renounce his U.S citizenship following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his band\u2019s performance at the London Stadium on Friday, Armstrong, who has been the punk rock band\u2019s frontman since 1987, told the audience he\u2019d be spending more time on their side of the Atlantic<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-joe-armstrong-renouncing-citizenship-roe-repeal-1374542\/?scrolltoken=1o9dbwfgTPM1BXFkUJDDHn-KdgAu0C1B4iEp3QUjpvQ4-wiIeFES5g77crEfl9qMjTI48fegxp2VrtkWrk21mJd7-2l6ry12Xd88lRPNBdPqxZ2G72zO35dXqZCnsFowA40vGRl_KnbDUO0NlyMu9TvOFcXvdw1-fiSIj6wH0A9lR1IhAPGaCU6aJCP0kpOPWhztbMud7PX8UY9ao43I_X7KnprpUP4Z-Pwpjw.eyJraWQiOiIyIn0\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cF\u2014 America, I\u2019m f\u2014ing renouncing my citizenship,\u201d the \u201cAmerican Idiot\u201d singer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/armstr0ngtyler\/status\/1540687191919280129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1540687191919280129%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fmusic%2Fmusic-news%2Fbillie-joe-armstrong-renouncing-citizenship-roe-repeal-1374542%2F\">told<\/a>&nbsp;the crowd. \u201cI\u2019m f\u2014ing coming here.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just too much f\u2014ing stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f\u2014ing excuse for a country,\u201d Armstrong added. \u201cOh, I\u2019m not kidding. You\u2019re going to get a lot of me in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong continued berating the U.S. during his band\u2019s show in Huddersfield, England the following day, saying\u00a0\u201cf\u2014 the Supreme Court of America\u201d\u00a0and calling its justices \u201cpricks,\u201d according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10954557\/Green-Day-star-Billie-Joe-Armstrong-says-f-America-claims-hes-renouncing-citizenship.html\">Daily Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong is among a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/3535877-celebrities-appalled-by-supreme-courts-abortion-ruling\/\">host of celebrities<\/a>&nbsp;and musicians who have lambasted the high court\u2019s decision to overturn the decades-old constitutional right to abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pop star Olivia Rodrigo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/3537720-olivia-rodrigo-slams-justices-over-abortion-ruling-at-festival-we-hate-you\/\">called out&nbsp;<\/a>the conservative justices by name during her performance over the weekend at the U.K.\u2019s Glastonbury music festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis song goes out to the justices: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh. We hate you!,\u201d the \u201cDriver\u2019s License\u201d singer said during a festival performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/thehill.com\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said that he plans to renounce his U.S citizenship following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.\u00a0 During his band\u2019s performance at the London Stadium on Friday, Armstrong, who has been the punk rock band\u2019s frontman since 1987, told the audience he\u2019d be spending more time on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16862,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions\/16862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}