Dwell Support founder Bob Geldof slammed Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump in the course of a gig in Dublin on Sunday, June 1. The Dwell Support legend was performing along with his band The Boomtown Rats as a part of the lineup for Rewind in St Anne’s Park when he launched right into a tirade about cuts to US assist funding.

Claiming the pair had “declared a struggle on the weakest, poorest, most weak folks on our planet,” he used some deeply offensive language to explain them.

“A few Irish singers have been going world wide this week, Bruce in London, Bono in LA and us right here, and all of us have mentioned the identical factor, that the strongest nation on the planet, essentially the most highly effective man on the planet, and the richest ever human being within the historical past of the world, on the primary of February 2025 declared a struggle on the weakest, poorest, most weak folks on our planet,” he fumed, including an outline too inappropriate for Categorical.co.uk to run.

His rant continued: “When that f***ing hedge-trimming, catatonic f***er… Musk determined that he would minimize US assist, meals, and drugs. Since that second, he was wielding his hedge-trimmer, 300,000 of the poorest folks on the planet have died due to that f***,” he instructed the gang.

Bob’s impassioned rant got here as he was reunited along with his Dwell Support co-organiser Midge Ure on the one-day competition. The pair put collectively Dwell Support in 1984 to boost funds for famine reduction in Ethiopia, to construct on the success of the charity single they spearheaded referred to as Do They Know It is Christmas?

“We solely wrote one track collectively, but it surely turned out to be the biggest-selling report in British historical past,” he instructed the gang as they carried out it collectively.

Dwell Support will have fun its fortieth anniversary in July, and thus far, the charitable belief has raised over £140 million.

Musk lately give up the Trump administration and his function as head of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). The model new company was tasked with overhauling US authorities spending. Fittingly, he revealed the information in a put up on X — his personal social media platform — on Wednesday, Could 28.

Trump had tasked Musk and DOGE with slashing federal spending in authorities departments throughout the US, however as Trump’s world tariffs coverage hit the US financial system, significantly its relationship with China, the connection between the 2 males grew to become strained.

Previous to this conflict, he had praised the billionaire for slashing assist expenditure to quite a few locations, together with a tiny South African nation that he claimed “no person has ever heard of”. Throughout a report 99-minute handle to Congress, Trump included the landlocked African nation in an inventory of the recipients of US assist that had lately had it rescinded as a part of Musk‘s DOGE cuts.

“Eight million {dollars} to advertise LGBTQI+ within the African nation of Lesotho,” the president mentioned. In an obvious jibe which was met with laughs and grins from fellow Republicans, he added: “Which no person has ever heard of.”