U2 front man and AIDS activist Bono has announced that while he and the boys welcome deplorables (probably so they can hear some truthiness about their hero) that Drumpf himself will be Persona Non Grata at this summer’s 30th anniversary celebration of their The Joshua Tree album gigs.
"Trump's supporters - the people who voted for Trump - are welcome at U2 gigs in America, but Donald Trump himself is not welcome at U2 gigs in America," the Elevation singer told the Irish Independent newspaper. "I welcome his supporters. But him? I don't want him here. A person like that."
The 57-year-old's anger with the President is due to the Trump administration floating moves to drastically cut HIV/AIDs research funding in draft budget documents released in March (17).
"I don't want to meet a person like that," the rocker explains. "I don't think this hyperbole - the largest intervention in the history of medicine is the fight against HIV/AIDS and the Americans have led it. It has had cross-party support. Bush started it; Obama continued it, even though he wasn't going to get the praise for it. And the idea that he (Trump) might undo that has me right on the back foot."
Bono expanded a bit at EVOKE.ie
‘There’s many things that are upsetting but there’s a paper circulated over the New Year that show a lot of cuts coming in things that people have worked really hard on over the years. They are not going to cut the funding in the fight against HIV they are just going to level it and Bill Gates will be here tonight, he will tell you ‘but that doesn’t work guys. He can’t level it off because people will die. So I don’t wanna meet that person.’
Good job, Bono...keep the faith bro.