Throughout an look on “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell” this previous Tuesday (Might twenty seventh), U2 frontman Bono was requested to weigh in on the continued drama between President Donald Trump and Bruce Springsteen.
“I feel there’s just one Boss in America,” Bono replied, referring to Springsteen’s nickname, The Boss.
The musician was then requested if he had seen Trump’s current Reality Social rants, during which he claims that U2, Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, and others have been illegally paid to endorse 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“I don’t wish to reduce in in your motion, as a result of I do know the president at 1 a.m., or 1:30, or no matter that was, is normally eager about you,” Bono jokingly advised Kimmel, who has additionally been focused by Trump up to now.
He continued: “However two factors I’ll make. One, to be the corporate of Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Oprah — I’ll play tambourine in that band. And two, U2 and I’ve by no means paid or performed a present to help any candidate from any get together. It has by no means occurred.”
Bono additionally famous that regardless of Trump’s social media web site being referred to as Reality Social, “it appears to be fairly delinquent,” including, “It’s not very true quite a lot of the time.”
The frontman went on to counsel a motive why he thinks the President is at the moment taking purpose at him, saying that it “may be the truth that I co-founded the One Marketing campaign, which is, by design, bipartisan.”
In keeping with the nonprofit’s web site, the One Marketing campaign advocates “for the investments wanted to create financial alternatives and more healthy lives in Africa.”
“We’ve obtained quite a lot of very non secular Catholics, Evangelicals, Conservatives who’re very, very, very offended with the person who they voted into workplace having demolished devices of mercy and compassion like USAID [United States Agency for International Development] or PEPFAR [United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief], which may save 26 million lives of people that have AIDS all over the world,” Bono defined. “That’s the America that we love. That’s the America that all of us wish to be a part of. And they don’t seem to be glad, and there shall be hassle.”
