Green Day’s 2004 ‘American Idiot’ performance on ‘Letterman’ re-uploaded to YouTube after Trump’s election win

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Green Day‘s performance of ‘American Idiot’ on a 2004 episode of …Letterman has been re-uploaded to YouTube following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.Trump’s win will make him the first former President to go back to the White House in more than 130 years.

He currently has 294 electoral votes, while Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has 223 (via BBC News).In an apparent response to this result, a live rendition of Billie Joe Armstrong and co’s political hit single ‘American Idiot’ has been reshared on the YouTube channel for the Late Show With David Letterman.Per a description, the trio appeared as the musical guests on the US chat show in September 2004.

Letterman introduced Green Day by joking: “I don’t know how our next guests slipped past Secret Service…”‘American Idiot’ was written and released during George W.

Bush’s presidency, and appears on the band’s seventh studio album of the same name.In the comments section of the new ...Letterman upload, one viewer wrote: “This is no coincidence.” Another said: “Usually these videos mark the death of someone.