So apparently, President Trump is now in trouble… with Bono.
Yes, that Bono. The rockstar. The sunglasses. The leather. The endless lectures. He popped up recently on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, which, of course, is where all serious geopolitical discourse happens now, to deliver what he apparently thinks is a dire warning to Trump.
“Watch out, President Trump. If you don’t shape up, Bono says there’s going to be trouble.”
Let that sink in for a second. The lead singer of U2 — a guy whose biggest accomplishment lately is making your iPhone play songs you didn’t ask for — is now playing foreign aid watchdog on late-night television.
Bono’s miffed over Trump’s efforts to cut funding to USAID. You know, the same USAID that funnels billions overseas to foster globalism and trash America at the same time, while Americans struggle to pay their rent.
Bono was upset — and not about inflation, the open border, or fentanyl deaths. No, he’s mad about Trump’s cuts to USAID.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“I co-founded the ‘One’ campaign, which is by design bipartisan,” Bono told Kimmel, “and 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 or PEPFAR which had saved 26 million lives of people who had AIDS around the world.”
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You hear that? “Instruments of mercy and compassion.” That’s a new way to describe bloated international handout programs. Most Americans just call them “foreign aid that does nothing for us.” Not jobs programs for Beltway lifers. Not the international cash vacuum that is PEPFAR and USAID. No, no — instruments of compassion.
And just when you thought the performance couldn’t get more dramatic, Bono said:
“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 — there will be trouble,” he warned. Hmmm. What does that even mean? Is Bono threatening to drop a surprise album on us again?
So apparently, President Trump is now in trouble… with Bono. The rockstar. The guy with the tinted rose-colored glasses and a savior complex the size of Ireland. That sounds serious. Maybe he’ll write another song no one wants to hear.
Bono tried to peddle this same line on Joe Rogan. It didn’t work out so well. It turns out that when you’re not surrounded by fawning studio audiences and a cheering Hollywood host, it’s a little harder to guilt-trip the American people into cutting more checks to global bureaucracies.
NEW: Joe Rogan sets the record straight after Bono claimed 300,000 people have died because of DOGE.
“[USAID] was a money laundering operation… there’s no oversight, no receipts. There is a lot of fraud, a lot of money laundering.”pic.twitter.com/KX2iHjeoHA
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 31, 2025
But give credit where it’s due — Bono’s still trying. And somewhere in a D.C. cubicle, a USAID lobbyist just added this to their next pitch: “Bono says we matter.”
Oh, where would we be without the endless wisdom of caring Hollywood celebrities? Probably wandering the earth in darkness, lost without their heartfelt Instagram posts and brave red carpet speeches.
