During an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” this past Tuesday (May 27th), U2 frontman Bono was asked to weigh in on the ongoing drama between President Donald Trump and Bruce Springsteen.
“I think there’s only one Boss in America,” Bono replied, referring to Springsteen’s nickname, The Boss.
The musician was then asked if he had seen Trump’s recent Truth Social rants, in which he claims that U2, Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey, and others were illegally paid to endorse 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
“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,” Bono jokingly told Kimmel, who has also been targeted by Trump in the past.
He continued: “But two points I’ll make. One, to be the company of Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Oprah — I’ll play tambourine in that band. And two, U2 and I have never paid or played a show to support any candidate from any party. It has never happened.”
Bono also noted that despite Trump’s social media site being called Truth Social, “it seems to be pretty antisocial,” adding, “It’s not very true a lot of the time.”
The frontman went on to suggest a reason why he thinks the President is currently taking aim at him, saying that it “might be the fact that I co-founded the One Campaign, which is, by design, bipartisan.”
According to the nonprofit’s website, the One Campaign advocates “for the investments needed to create economic opportunities and healthier lives in Africa.”
“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 having demolished instruments of mercy and compassion like USAID [United States Agency for International Development] or PEPFAR [United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief], which can save 26 million lives of people who have AIDS around the world,” Bono explained. “That’s the America that we love. That’s the America that we all want to be part of. And they are not happy, and there will be trouble.”
