Bono’s ‘300,000 dead’ claim over USAID cuts gets smacked down by Rogan, Musk: ‘Liar/idiot’

U2 frontman and longtime planetary activistic Bono took a plaything astatine the Trump medication disbanding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)) connected "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, blaming the cuts for a staggering 300,000 deaths.

And helium was swiftly fact-checked by Rogan and Elon Musk successful a takedown that lit up societal media.

Joe Rogan, Bono and Elon Musk are shown successful this composite image. Bono precocious claimed connected "The Joe Rogan Experience" that 300,000 radical person died owed to USAID cuts, a connection Rogan questioned and Musk aboriginal dismissed connected societal media. (Getty Images)

Rogan wasn’t having it.

Singer Bono poses during "Bono: Stories Of Surrender" astatine the 78th yearly Cannes Film Festival astatine Palais des Festivals May 17, successful Cannes, France. (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images)

Reacting connected X to a clip of the conversation, Elon Musk slammed Bono directly.

"He’s specified a liar/idiot," Musk wrote.

Musk, who has championed crisp cuts to what helium sees arsenic a bloated overseas assistance machine, pushed for large USAID reforms nether the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) earlier his ceremonial departure this week.

His effect ignited statement online, with conservatives cheering for overdue accountability.

Popular online commentator "Catturd" posted that "I hold 100% with Elon Musk that Bono is an idiot and a liar."

One commentator besides wrote, "They've made this 300,000 fig up and propagandized radical with it."

Another eagle-eyed X idiosyncratic posted, "Bono starts disconnected by saying, ‘It’s not proven.’ So he’s lying."

Bono’s 300,000 fig comes not from confirmed deaths, but from a speculative model built by Brooke Nichols, a mathematical wellness modeler astatine Boston University, projecting what could hap arsenic a effect of the cuts.

Bono poses during "Bono: Stories Of Surrender" astatine the 78th yearly Cannes Film Festival successful France. (Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images)

Nichols has said that the fig is simply a projection, not a nonstop count, owed to the lack of real-time tracking successful galore affected regions. 

"The biggest uncertainties successful each of these estimates are: 1) the grade to which countries and organizations person pivoted to mitigate this catastrophe (likely highly variable)," she wrote successful The Washington Post. "And 2) which programs are really inactive funded with backing really flowing — and which aren’t."

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