U2 host educates Podcaster to regularly support and defend Elon Musk.
The singer discussed the impact of the cuts proposed by the Trump administration and Musk administration’s Department of Efficiency on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is believed to be an international source of assistance to more than 120 countries through providing food programs, clean water and infectious diseases. The organization's efforts are usually about saving lives.
Since the early 1980s, Bono has been on humanitarian journeys with Africa and other countries and has a history of working with the United States Agency for International Development. He cited a study that estimates that the department's cuts would result in more than 300,000 deaths worldwide - more than 200,000 of whom suffer from malnutrition, malaria and pneumonia. He claimed that the cuts have already left food, water and medical assistants in trouble due to massive layoffs.
"There is food rot in the ships and warehouses," Bono said. "There is 50,000 tons of food. The person who knows the regulations (the code responsible for distributing the aid) was fired. Not the United States, is it?"
Bono said he understands why people are reducing large governments, but said cuts to popular charity programs have had disastrous consequences.
"To destroy, destruction is full of joy, these life support systems are pulled from the walls," Bono said. Christianity today: "(A assistant said), 'We have no funds, we have to choose which child to get out of IV." In my opinion, I don't know if "evil" is too strong, but what we know about pure evil is that it is in dying, wasting human life, especially children, which is actually incompetent.
Bono added that he even tried to solve the problem with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who the singer said he said he was "confirm that people are not dead yet".
Rogan pushed back, saying the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was a "money laundering operation" that lost "trillions" and "no supervision, no receipts."
That said, Rogan added: “But when you talk about making money for people in Congo to get fresh water, when you talk about food and medicines in places that are not accessible, there shouldn’t be cut.
Rogan added: "Ironically, even though Elon Musk brought up all these things and the Taoist committee brought up all these things, they didn't cut any budget. They cut nothing."
Musk posted a clip of Bono and shot X: "He's such a liar/idiot. Zero is dead!"
Musk and Rubio insist that no one died could refer to the 300,000 death report as a prediction of the death toll, rather than saying that these deaths have occurred.
exist Christianity today Bono quoted the story, workers on the ground say funds have been cut and suggests that children will die soon. "I do think that if there is no correction, we can expect increased mortality, increased infection and despair." Similarly, Bono's citation on removing children from IV is indeed a prediction, rather than a current statement of fact. But, according to Brooke Nichols, a mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University, created the predictive model — tens of thousands have died.
Nichols told era U.K. "But I'm very shocked by the death of children with diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition. Thousands of children have died because we have withdrawn funds from diarrhea, pneumonia and food programs."
The bottom line seems to be: Humanitarian workers say the Trump administration's actions have had a terrible impact on the ground, but there is some debate about how many deaths have occurred, if any. However, all experts seem to agree that the proposed cuts (reported to reduce spending by 80%) would be devastating, and would result in hundreds of thousands of deaths if fully implemented and/or more time passed without strengthening the government.
Previously, Bill Gates similarly scolded Musk Financial Timessaid: "The picture of the richest people in the world killing the poorest children in the world is not a beautiful child."
The news came, Musk resigned from his official White House role and a New York Times The report said the billionaire took a lot of ketamine and other drugs on the road to running. Musk called the report "BS" and said the number of meetings and photos he attended would make this use impossible.
During the podcast, Bono further warned that, in general, the Trump administration’s isolationist impulse.
"I just want to remind Americans of the size of their country, and I'm not talking about geography," Bono said. "The scale of their ideas, it's just an extraordinary thing. It's an idea big enough to fit the whole world when it becomes an island rather than a continent... When it shrinks, the United States doesn't seem to be America anymore."