U2 front man Paul “Bono” Hewson melted down at the Cannes film festival in France, telling an international audience that President Trump and Elon Musk “took pleasure” in “murdering one million children” by “pulling their life support systems out of the wall, with glee.”
Bono was referring to the Trump administration’s decision to create DOGE with Elon Musk which began its work by slashing USAID outgoings.
Shifts in geopolitical tectonics was much on Bono’s mind. He has spent much of his leftwing activist life fighting for aid to Africa and combating HIV-AIDS. U.S. President Donald Trump’s dismantling of USAID has reversed much of that.
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“What’s irrational is taking pleasure in the defacement of these institutions of mercy,” Bono said in conversation with the Associated Press to promote his new black-and-white film Bono: Stories of Surrender.
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“I can tell you that a million children dying because their life support systems were pulled out of the wall, with glee, that’s not the America that I recognize or understand.”
The multimillionaire musician then launched into a rant about the history of Europe before declaring that contemporary populist politics is “bewildering” to him.
“You’re on the front lines of Europe here. America came in and saved the day. Ironically, so did Russia. More people died from Russia fighting the Nazis than everybody else. Now they tread on their own sacred memories by treading on the Ukrainians who also died on the front lines. I think part of that is that history didn’t acknowledge it.
“I believe there is integrity in the Russian people. They need to change their leader, in my view. I believe there is integrity in the Americans. They will figure it out. Who was it who said: If you give Americans the facts, they will eventually make the right choice. Right now, they’re not getting the facts.
“Think of it: a 70% decline in HIV-AIDS, Republican-led, Democratically followed though. The greatest health intervention in the history of medicine to fight HIV-AIDS has been thrown away. It was nearly there. To a space traveler, it’s like getting to Mars and going, ‘Nah, we’ll go back.’ It’s bewildering to me.”