Overview
- At the Shaftesbury Theatre opening of Just For One Day, Geldof denounced Elon Musk as a “sociopathic loser” and “ketamine-crazed fool” for calling empathy a weakness and slashing the US aid budget while leading the Department of Government Efficiency.
- He branded President Trump, Senator J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio liars for claiming to send food to starving children in Sudan after USAid funding was removed on February 1.
- He criticized Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves for cutting the UK’s overseas aid budget despite ongoing global humanitarian needs.
- Geldof warned that misleading the public about aid reductions has cost at least 300,000 lives since early February.
- Just For One Day has already raised nearly £1 million and channels 10 percent of ticket revenues to the Band Aid Charitable Trust to fund hospitals and schools in famine-affected regions.