We could have written a song called “Trump Is a Shithead” or whatever, but that would have been too easy. There’s more going on than just that. And it’s too bad that we’re at that point. [The lyric] ‘Machiavelli flow’, to me, is a leader saying whatever they want to say to get into office and then totally screwing everybody over once they get there. Give me the dignity of patronising me. Now, it’s just like, ‘Oh, fuck you, figure it out.’ The verses are rocking, they’re pretty heavy, and then it goes to this light chorus, almost like a musical coping mechanism.

Dexter Holland:

I feel like we’re in a unique period in history where instead of our world leaders saying ‘we’re doing our best’ it’s more like they’re saying ‘fuck it’ and it’s really scary.

Noodles:

Folks are saying, if it’s all going to hell, we might as well make the most out of it, or at least go out swinging. Let the Bad Times Roll!

— via Rolling Stone