New York, New York - Punk rock band Green Day are facing a ton of heat from the right after they dissed former President Donald Trump and his MAGA base.

On Sunday, the band played their hit song American Idiot during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which was broadcasted on ABC to millions of viewers.

In the second verse, singer Billy Joe Armstrong swapped out a line, instead singing, "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda."

Well, MAGA loyalists and far-right sympathizers have been losing their collective minds in reaction to the shameless display of resistance against authority – by a punk rock band (imagine that).

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Clips of the incident have gone viral on social media, with critics calling the band out for pandering to "wokeness," and pushing a leftist agenda.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld had a field day on a recent episode of The Five, slamming the band as "the opposite of punk rock" because they are "mimicking exactly what you would hear out of the mouths of Joe Biden, the legacy media, and most importantly, the establishment."

Gutfeld went on to list public figures he considered "punkers", such as comedian Joe Rogan and billionaire Elon Musk, because they "think outside of politics" and "threaten the establishment" instead of "appease it."

"[Green Day] pretend to be giving it to the man, when they're really giving him a reach around," he added.

Speaking of the richest man in the world, Musk, who faced heavy criticism last year for platforming far-right provocateurs and sharing conspiracy theories, took to his social media platform X to weigh in on the band's stunt.

"Green Day goes from raging against the machine to miquetoastedly raging for it," Musk wrote.

So does Green Day's latest anti-MAGA stunt somehow make them "more" punk rock, or less?

While the exact origins of punk rock are debatable, its roots can be traced back as far as the 1970s, with bands like the Sex Pistols, Bad Brains, the Ramones, and the Dead Kennedys helping to define the genre's rebellious and anti-authority aesthetics.

To argue Green Day's shoutout against MAGA is reason for them to lose their punk rock credibility seems plain wrong, and dishonest to the roots of the movement.

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Rock music as a whole has a well established history of questioning and challenging authority and pushing social norms and boundaries, while producing artists that appeal to listeners across the political spectrum. Questioning "the MAGA agenda," which has an undoubted stronghold on much of the country – as seen by Trump once again leading in the Republican Primary polls by a large margin – is exactly what the music and its message is all about.

MAGA fans seem fine with artists pushing agendas they can relate to, but when the message is in opposition, the script flips.