David Letterman posts Green Day ‘American Idiot’ clip the day of Trump election victory

Top Ten Signs David Letterman is Unhappy After Election Day.

No. 1: The erstwhile “Late Show” host’s Instagram relationship posted a video of Green Day performing “American Idiot” hours aft president-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

The clip, which first aired connected CBS successful 2004, features lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong and his set wailing stinging lyrics specified arsenic “not a portion of nan redneck agenda” and “one federation controlled by nan media.”

Green Day’s deed grounds “American Idiot” was successful ample portion a consequence to nan Republican presidency of George W. Bush and nan Iraq War. It was nominated for nan 2005 Grammy Award for Album of nan Year, and was made into a Broadway philharmonic successful 2010.

The societal media page for Letterman, 77, didn’t connection governmental commentary successful nan post’s caption, simply saying “Green Day performs ‘American Idiot’.”

It is besides unclear if nan late-night vet does his ain posting aliases moreover personally approves what goes up connected his account, which is mostly archival worldly from his decades connected TV and caller videos of nan funnyman changeable by different people.

David Letterman’s Instagram relationship posted a clip of Green Day performing “American Idiot” nan time aft nan statesmanlike election. REUTERS

Billie Joe Armstrong and nan set performed connected “The Late Show” successful 2004. Letterman/ YouTube

However, Letterman has supported Democrats successful nan past — including Harris.

Back successful July, he hosted a fundraiser for nan campaigner successful Martha’s Vineyard, which was attended by her hubby Doug Emhoff.

The Massachusetts summertime arena was primitively meant to beryllium thrown for President Joe Biden, but nan big quickly shifted gears aft nan incumbent dropped retired of nan title and endorsed Harris.

With Letterman, who near his CBS show successful 2015, there’s besides no mislaid emotion for Trump.

In 2019, he told “Today” of nan then-Commander-in-Chief, “As an American, I don’t for illustration this man arsenic president of our country. I emotion being an American, but I don’t consciousness he represents me, and I don’t for illustration that.”