As if the politicization of Sunday night football wasn’t enough, you can now have politics shoved down your throat while watching a concert too.
At the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas on September 23, Bono warned screaming fans against a Trump presidency, or as Rolling Stone put it, “spun the Republican nominee’s gloomy rhetoric into an optimistic message.”
During U2’s song “Desire,” Bono began to ask the crowd, “Are you ready to gamble? Are you ready to gamble your car? Are you ready to gamble your house?” While he spoke, a large video of Trump played overhead looping the question, “What do you have to lose?” Bono then asked the crowd, “Are you ready to gamble the American Dream?” to which another video of Trump responded, “The American Dream is dead.”
But Bono valiantly defied Trump, yelling to the crowd, “The American Dream is alive!” The band finished their song with Trump still asking, “What do you have to lose?” in the background. As the song and Trump’s words faded out, Bono repeated the question, “What do you have to lose?” Then the man who earlier in the week described himself as “fiercely bipartisan” declared, “Everything! Everything!”
Adding to his bipartisanship, on September 20 Bono told CBS This Morning that Trump is the “worst idea that ever happened to America.”
Thank goodness Bono is “fiercely bipartisan,” otherwise that concert would have been really one-sided.
