Sir Bob Geldof condemns President Donald Trump and Elon Musk

March 18, 2025

Sir Bob Geldof has condemned American President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s huge budget cuts at USAID, America’s international aid agency.

Speaking in London about the devastating impact of cuts made to USAID famine and AID relief programmes in Africa, the rock star and charitable campaigner said the duo are taking apart the structures that allow people to live.” 

Geldof predicted millions of people who require AIDS medicines may now very well die. He added that hundreds of millions more could conceivably die of hunger and accused Trump and Musk of quite literally, unbelievably, taking the food from a starving or hungry child’s mouth.” 

Talking to The Daily Telegraph’s music critic Neil McCormick for a forthcoming podcast, The Bridge: Music, War and Peace, Sir Geldof discussed the charitable work he has engaged in following Band Aid in 1984, Live Aid in 1985 and Live 8 in 2005. 

“Music harnessed the sympathetic mind and focused the intent, and we were able to show through Live Aid that it was possible to change things, give us money, and we will stop as many of these people dying as possible.”

“Disgracefully, the most powerful country on earth, the strongest man on the planet and the richest man in the world, decided to take apart the structures that allow millions of people to live. So at a stroke, those people who require AIDS medicines may now very well die. Five million in Africa almost immediately. Currently it looks like that will happen. But quite, quite literally, unbelievably taking the food from a starving or hungry child's mouth. There are 600 million hungry people going to bed tonight. 300 million of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have made sure that they go to bed hungry into the foreseeable future and conceivably die of hunger.”
Bob Geldof

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