Posted on 07/01/2025 7:55:38 AM PDT by Twotone
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell on Monday with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Obama called the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID “a colossal mistake.”
Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old humanitarian and development organization, created by President John F. Kennedy as a peaceful way of promoting U.S. national security by boosting goodwill and prosperity abroad.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered USAID absorbed into the State Department on Tuesday.
The former presidents and Bono spoke with thousands in the USAID community in a videoconference, which was billed as a closed-press event to allow political leaders and others privacy for sometimes angry and often teary remarks. Parts of the video were shared with The Associated Press.
They expressed their appreciation for the thousands of USAID staffers who have lost their jobs and life’s work. Their agency was one of the first and most fiercely targeted for government-cutting by President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk, with staffers abruptly locked out of systems and offices and terminated by mass emailing.
Trump claimed the agency was run by “radical left lunatics” and rife with “tremendous fraud.” Musk called it “a criminal organization.”
Obama, speaking in a recorded statement, offered assurances to the aid and development workers, some listening from overseas.
“Your work has mattered and will matter for generations to come,” he told them.
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We are the world, we are the children. We are the ones who make a better day so let’s start giving.
ROTFL! Their tears are exactly what I want.
When those three agree on something, we can be confident that they are wrong.
Can they cry some more?
Please?
tearful bono?
lolololol
Fixed.
Never give up the con, eh boys?
Ahhh yes. All those Muslim countries and turd world s holes who love the USA because they see what chumps we are giving their dictators ‘free’ money.
They are mad because it is the democrat party money laundering scam.
Like most government programs and agencies, they always get morphed into an unrecognizable financial and political monster.
Bono’s band moved their tax residence out of Ireland and he does everything he can to shield his income; we don’t need lectures from this tax dodger on how to spend the hard earned money of the American working class. And we need no lectures from “Mission Accomplished” Bush who never seemed to have a word of criticism for Obama’s left policies or even to acknowledge Biden’s senility and the evil that his appointees brought upon this country. We don’t want your stupid advice, Mr. Bush.
Bono’s ONE foundation under fire for giving little over 1% of funds to charity
Bono under fire for mismanagement of charity funds
https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/bono-under-fire-for-mismanagement-of-charity-funds-596964
Inside Bono’s boundless hypocrisy
https://nypost.com/2017/11/11/the-hypocrisy-of-bono-and-his-one-charity/
U2 Abandons Ireland in the Name of Taxes
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/u2-abandons-ireland-name-taxes/
Jorge and Barrio , two reasons Trump won 3X
Parasites all,STFU
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration
Who are trying to kid?
It’s been moved to another department. Bunch of liars.
“rare criticism”, huh? It IS from AP, Appalling Press
No more Bushes, no more Clintons - ever.
Tears of your enemies,...
South Park needs to do another Bono episode. He’s even more insufferable now.
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