During the Iraq War, Green Day, the alt-rock band, was struggling until it hit on the idea of an anti-Bush rebrand. The result, American Idiot, made them stars again.

The middle-aged band is trying to do it again by going where everyone, including they, have gone before.

Green Day performed a fan favorite while performing live on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, but with a twist.

While singing the 2004 classic rock hit American Idiot, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong opted to omit an anti-gay slur from one of the lines, and change the original lyric “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”

So edgy.

Like a lot of faded rock stars, Armstrong looks like an elderly lesbian and is attempting to make headlines ahead of the release of the band’s latest forgettable album. People used to call Green Day pop-punk, the safe thing to do is call it a rock band because it’s gotten way too old and tired to be punk. Not that it isn’t trying by going right back to its American Idiot days.

The lead single for its latest album is titled, “The American Dream Is Killing Me.”

Enough said.

This isn’t punk, it’s as establishment as it gets. So was American Idiot. And so the doughy guy who looks like a suburban accountant wearing mascara shows up to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve to really it out there on the line.

“I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”

That clears that up. I’m sure everybody was wondering.

And in 2018, the band performed an intimate concert during the international arts festival Cannes Lions, and got candid with the audience between songs.

“I f—ing hate Donald Trump so much,” he said. “I used to scream I hated George Bush. This one is a little different. This one is bad’ it’s like acid gone bad. F—ing LSD and the American Right, man.”

Like I said, edgy. The old Gen X audience of suburban college students now consists of middle-aged elite-class liberals. Armstrong can look forward to complaining that some future Republican president forced him to go to school.