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.”