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Legacy
In a 2019 Consequence of Sound article commemorating the 15th anniversary of the album's release, Tyler Clark stated that: Fifteen years after its release, the album that saved Green Day’s career remains, for better or worse, the most visible protest record of the Iraq War era. Although released during the presidency of George W. Bush, Green Day's front man Billy Joe Armstrong has been quoted as saying that he "would never think of American Idiot as being about the Bush administration specifically." The song has been used to protest presidential administrations since its initial release. In 2019, British citizens organized in an effort to bring the song to the top of the country's pop charts in response to a visit from US President Donald Trump. During a live performance at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas in September 2019, Armstrong altered the lyrics of the song to protest the Trump administration, changing the lyrics from "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda," to "I'm not a part of a MAGA agenda."