U2 frontman and longtime global activist Bono swung the Trump Administration, disbanding the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which attributed the cuts to a staggering 300,000 deaths.
Rogan and Elon Musk quickly conducted a fact-check on him, a evacuation that illuminated social media.
"This will f --- you leave," Bono warned, claiming that thousands of food "rotted" in warehouses from Djibouti to Houston have been fired due to recent United States Agency for International Development (USAID) cuts, and that the people who run them have been fired.
"What is that? That's not the United States, is it?"
I am a whistleblower from the United States Agency for International Development. I must admit that Musk is right to waste mainly on agents
Joe Rogan, Bono and Elon Musk are shown in this composite image. Bono recently claimed on Joe Rogan's Experience that 300,000 people were killed in cutting the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Rogan asked in a statement that Musk was subsequently fired on social media. (Getty Image)
Logan doesn't have it.
“They threw the baby out,” he said, admitting that despite some aid groups doing well, the U.S. International Development system is full of corruption.
"It's a money laundering operation, of course, without supervision. … trillions of dollars are not blamed."
The Trump administration cut 90% of foreign aid contracts, documents show.
Singer Bono poses in "Bono: Serrender of Surrender" at the 78th Annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 17. (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images)
Elon Musk reacted to the clip of the conversation on X and directly slammed Bono.
"He's a liar/idiot," Musk wrote.
Musk advocates for sharp cuts, which he sees as a swelling foreign aid machine, pushing for major reforms to the Ministry of Efficiency (DOGE) before his official departure this week.
His answer inspired online debate, and conservatives cheered over overdue accountability.
Popular online commentator "Catturd" posted: "I 100% agree that Bono is an idiot and a liar."
One commentator also wrote: "They have made this 300,000 digital publicity and promoted it."
Another Hawkeye X user posted: "Bono first said: 'It didn't prove it.' So he was lying."
Bono's 300,000 figures are not from confirmed deaths, but from speculative models built by Boston University's mathematical health modeler Brooke Nichols, projecting what could happen due to the cuts.
Bono poses in "Bono: Serrenders of Surrender" at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival in France. (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images)
Nichols said that since many affected areas do not track in real time, the numbers are not counted directly.
"The biggest uncertainty of all these estimates is: 1) the extent to which states and organizations are mitigating the degree of rotation (possibly highly variable) of this disaster," she wrote in the Washington Post. "And 2) what programs are actually still funding the funds that are actually flowing - which programs are not."
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