Bono: Trump Is ‘Potentially the Worst Idea That Ever Happened to America’

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Mediaite



Bono sat down with Charlie Rose and, like pretty much every celebrity who does an interview these days, was asked about Donald Trump.

“America is like the best idea the world ever came up with,” he said, “but Donald Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America. Potentially.”

Bono spoke of how America isn’t just a country, it’s “an idea” with strong beliefs in liberty and justice.

He lamented how Trump has “hijacked the party” and wants to “hijack the idea of America.”

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bono-trump-is-potentially-the-worst-idea-that-ever-happened-to-america/

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[Midnight Writer]

1. Damn! I am so old, when I saw this headline, I thought "But Sonny is dead!"

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

14. He came back from the dead just to warn us about Trump. LOL n/t

[kysrsoze]

2. Hats off to him

[Skittles]

3. THANK YOU BONO

STILL LOVING YOU

[olddad56]

4. Not even potentially

he has alreadyserved to divide this country like it has been since the civil war.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. Watch the entire interview. His Hillary experience is awesome.

He intends to do more to prevent Trump becoming leader of the free world and turning America into a "casino".

And he had glowing words about Hillary's effort with the One campaign. We need to repeat what he said in this interview as he is bipartisan and comes to this decision carefully.

Best of all he chastised Rose for bringing up the HRC "trust" meme. It was a great moment. He backed it up.

Try to post that segment about 25 minutes in on the charlie rose show.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. Check out Raw Story. But look out for the entire segment on HRC & DT

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/u2s-bono-disgusted-by-trump-hes-potentially-the-worst-idea-that-ever-happened-to-america/

[mdbl]

7. I'm sure the right wing trash talk radio

will start demeaning him at every angle, like usual. Right talk radio hosts are the ugliest, least appealing people on this planet, yet they get away with making fun of others. Now that's irony.

[underpants]

10. Oh yeah. They will go after him.

The irony is that U2 at its core is really a Christian Rock band. They called themselves as such until Adam Clayton told them early on - tone down the Christian stuff or I'm leaving.

[riversedge]

8. Trump has brought out the stinking underbelly of America for the world to see.

[Hortensis]

21. Shameful, but the whole world has its stinking underbellies,

after all, and many, many are far smellier than ours.

Also, ignoring our all good people and our very real national stability to overstate the effects of the stinky underbellies, such as imagining we are as "divided" as we've ever been since the Civil War (how ridiculous!), would actually work to make things worse.

Maintaining perspective is a good thing.

[riversedge]

9. REC

[Blandocyte]

11. Worse than iTunes forcing your album on us?

[Wednesdays]

13. Non-sequitor of the day.

[Blandocyte]

15. I liked the Sonny Bono one, myself

Also, there's no hyphen in non sequitur. And I don't think that it means what you think it means.

[LanternWaste]

26. I'd apply the word 'relevance' in that context to you as well.

"I don't think that it means what you think it means..."

I'd apply the word 'relevance' in that context to you as well.

[Sunlei]

12. That's the Republican Party for you. They can't even manage, & work together within their own party.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. Has Trump trash tweeted him yet?

You know he will.

[neeksgeek]

17. Trump IS the Worst Idea That Ever Happened to America. FTFY

[hamsterjill]

18. Bono is not just your typical celebrity endorsement.

I'm glad he's speaking out against Trump. Bono has some real substance. He's not just your typical celebrity with name recognition. He has the acts that substantiate his involvement in world causes. Leaders listen to him, as well they should.

Glad he's on our side!

[Yavin4]

19. Hmm. Think that slavery from Africa and Native American genocide are still the reigning champs

of worst American ideas, but I get the sentiment.

[mdbl]

24. and always the same types that cause it

Look who backed slavery in the past and look who backs Trump now.

[treestar]

20. Good for him

There's some video somewhere where Bono does a good impersonation of Bill Clinton.

[The Green Manalishi]

22. 9 on a scale of 10

Andrew Jackson was worse.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

23. Bono works with Republicans. He isn't American. So he's still trying to figure out what to do.

But he is going to do as much as he can in a bi-partisan way.

I'm still trying to find the exact statement that set Charlie Rose on his heels regarding "trust" during the interview.

[mdbl]

25. Where does Bono find Repugs with common sense?

He's a better man than I.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

27. He didn't name names, but I think they are Christian Missionary types.

Likely those who want to convert Africa. He's very Catholic.

[CJohnson_LS]

28. Just another reason to love U2

But I disagree with Bono on Trump being America's worst idea, although he is certainly one of the worst. Slavery and the extermination of the indigenous Americans were far worse overall. That said, Trump being President would certainly bring disastrous consequences for both this country and the world.