Bono is aware of who he’s backing within the battle between Bruce Springsteen and President Donald Trump.
Requested if he was rooting for the rock star or the U.S. president throughout a Tuesday night time look on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the U2 frontman had the group roaring as he smiled and mentioned, “I think there’s only one ‘Boss’ in America.”
Kimmel additionally bought Bono to deal with one in all Trump’s latest Fact Social rants, the place he accused the Irishman of being paid to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris… regardless of the actual fact Bono by no means weighed in on the 2024 election.
Earlier than setting the report straight, the “Sweetest Thing” singer winked at Kimmel’s steady conflict with Trump, as he informed the late-night host, “I don’t want to cut in on your action, because I know the president at 1 a.m., or 1:30, or whatever that was, is usually thinking about you.”
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However the president appeared to have Bono and never Kimmel on the mind earlier this month, when he baselessly claimed the human rights activist and singer, together with Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey and Beyoncé, had accepted cash in alternate for publicly supporting the previous vp.
Although Bono mentioned he was flattered to be named alongside such gifted folks, he reminded Kimmel and the viewers that neither himself nor U2 have ever been “paid or played a show to support any candidate from any party.”
“It has never happened,” he mentioned, additionally noting how issues on Fact Social gave the impression to be “pretty antisocial” and “not very true a lot of the time.”
The “With Or Without You” crooner did have one “clue” as to how Trump might have mistakenly come to assume he backed Harris. He suspected the president might have confused his nonpartisan human rights charity, the One Marketing campaign, as a political challenge.
Although the One Marketing campaign has no ideological allegiance, Bono revealed how even conservative elements of its ranks aren’t happy with how the Trump administration gutted businesses offering key humanitarian support to folks throughout the globe.
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“We’ve got a lot of very religious Catholics, Evangelicals, conservatives who are very, very, very angry with the person that they voted into office” after he destroyed “instruments of mercy and compassion” like USAID, he mentioned.
Speaking concerning the time earlier than the U.S. cancelled 80% of the important company’s contracts, Bono mentioned, “That’s the America that we love. That’s the America that we all want to be part of.”
“They are not happy,” he mentioned of his fellow advocates. “And there will be trouble.”
Whereas Trump’s purpose for beefing with Bono appears to be pretty fallacious, the president and Springsteen have been locked in a confrontation because the begin of this month.
After the “Born in the U.S.A.” artist referred to as Trump and his administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” through the opening night time of his Land of Hope and Desires tour, the president shot again by calling Springstreen a “dried-out ‘prune’ of a rocker” and including that he “never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics.”
Watch Bono’s full interview on Kimmel beneath:
