Overview
- Trump’s Truth Social post accused Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah and Bono of receiving illegal payments from Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign and called for an investigation
- On Jimmy Kimmel LiveBono asserted that neither he nor U2 has ever accepted payment to support any political candidate
- He publicly backed Springsteen by quipping that there is only one ‘Boss’ in America in response to the singer’s critique of the administration
- Bono characterized Truth Social as “antisocial” and unreliable while rebutting Trump’s accusations
- As co-founder of the One Campaign, he warned that cuts to USAID and PEPFAR imperil critical global health programs