Bono Rips Trump
for Ending DACA: ‘This Country Was Built for Dreamers’
by Jerome Hudson 8 Sep 2017
U2 frontman Bono blasted President Donald Trump’s decision
to rescind the DACA amnesty program
on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday, after
performing a politically-charged rendition of the Joshua Tree track
“Bullet the Blue Sky.”
“It’s a strange place we find ourselves in. It’s
dangerous out there when you have a little emperor there with a bad haircut and
his finger on the nuclear arsenal. And a lot of people in silly costumes
following me around. And then you have the dude from North Korea,” Bono joked
about Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
Later in the interview, the Irish rocker said the idea of
America is being “twisted” following Trump’s decision to end DACA.
“Every night we’re reminded why we fell in love with this
country,” Bono said. “And it’s not just a country; it’s an idea. It’s a great
idea, one of the best ideas ever. But you can feel in recent times that idea
get a bit twisted.”
“And then you have the ‘dreamers,’” he said, referring to
the estimated 800,000 people who illegally entered the U.S. with their
parents as children and who had been previously shielded from deportation,
thanks to Obama’s controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) amnesty program.
“I mean, we’re Irish! We’re the ‘dreamers,'” Bono said.
“This country was built for and by ‘dreamers.’ … If there’s no room for
‘dreamers,’ where are we in America? It’s the American dream!”
Earlier in the night, Bono changed the lyrics of the hit
song “Bullet the Blue Sky” to negatively reference President Trump.
“Suit and tie comes up to me, face orange as the rose on
a thorn bush/ Skin as thin as an Orange Crush/ He’s peeling off those dollar
bills,” Bono sang on stage, in one altered anti-Trump lyric.
“Ground shakes, but the children can’t weep/ Vaporized in
a single tweet/,” he sang in another scathing modified line.
The Irish rock band is currently on tour celebrating
the 30th anniversary of their iconic 1987 album Joshua Tree.
In June, U2 performed two politically
charged performances in New Jersey in which Bono urged the
American media to stay “vigilant” in the era of Trump and slammed the
president’s immigration policies.
Let’s connect the dots:
Bono
Bono
is a co-founder for the ONE Campaign,
was an advisory board member for the Earth
Institute (think tank), and attended George
Soros’s 2013 wedding reception.
Note: ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, Amnesty International, and the Economic
Policy Institute.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, an advisory board member for the Earth Institute (think tank), Bono attended his 2013 wedding
reception, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and the founder for the Soros Fund Management.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Amnesty
International, the Economic Policy
Institute, and the Institute for New
Economic Thinking.
Howard W. Buffett
is an advisory board member for the Earth
Institute (think tank), and Howard
G. Buffett’s son.
Howard G. Buffett
is Howard W. Buffett’s father, a
director at the ONE Campaign, and Warren E. Buffett’s son.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Susan A. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and Warren E. Buffett’s daughter.
Warren E. Buffett
is Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father, and an advisory
board member for Everytown for Gun
Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Rhonda Weingarten
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a director at the Economic Policy Institute.
Robert A. Johnson
is a director at the Economic Policy
Institute, the president of the Institute
for New Economic Thinking, and was a managing director for the Soros Fund Management.
Raul Yzaguirre
was a director at the Economic Policy
Institute, and the president & CEO for the National Council of La Raza.
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