Elon Musk has spoken out with a brutal response to Bono after the iconic singer referred to DOGE cuts as ‘pure evil’.
The frontman of U2 slammed the Tesla boss during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
During the three-hour chat, Bono talked about Musk where he criticized the Trump administration and, in particular the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Musk took on the role as the head of the body after forming a close friendship with the president during his election campaign.
However, earlier this month, he announced that he was stepping back, taking to his own social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to write: “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending.
“The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
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Speaking to Rogan, Bono said that a study from Boston University had estimated that the cuts to government spending will cause over 300,000 deaths worldwide.
The singer added: “There’s food rotting in boats, in warehouses – 50,000 tons of it. The people who knew the codes, who were responsible for distributing that aid, were fired. That’s not America, is it?”
Now, Musk has hit back on X, writing that Bono is ‘such a liar’ and an ‘idiot’ before going on to claim that ‘zero people have died’ because of the cuts to USAID.
Later, Musk added: “South Park lampooned Bono as the biggest s*** in the world. They were right.”
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Musk has also spoken of his disappointment in the Trump administration after it announced a ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’, which will bring in a new budget promising tax cuts and further military spending, while cutting some federal health and energy programs.
Speaking to CBS Sunday Morning, Musk said: “I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.”
Musk went on to say: “I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don’t know if it can be both.”
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Musk also spoke to the Washington Post claiming that DOGE has become a scapegoat, saying: “DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything. So, like, something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.
“The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized. I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in DC, to say the least.”