Bono releases ‘American Obituary’ protest song targeting Trump’s immigration policies

I’m sorry to say that aging Irish pop star and U2 frontman Bono is at it again, teaching us poor people a lesson as he always does. This time it’s about the Trump administration’s supposedly fascist efforts to detain and deport illegal immigrant criminals.

This week, the band, which hasn’t produced a related song since the invention of the iPod, released a single called “American Obituary” that was intended to be a searing protest anthem against President Donald Trump, but was actually a song as loose as Bono’s mail-in rage of the day.

Consider this deep line:

“Renee Good was born to die free

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American mother of three

Seventh day January

One bullet for every child, you see.”

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Did it happen near a tree? Did he know how to ski? Well Dr. Does Seuss know Bono raided his notebooks?

This rearing clown captures an incredibly alarming and complex situation in Minneapolis where a federal agent shot and killed Good, making it look like a murder. But Bono doesn’t bother to mention that Good hit the officer with his car when he was shot.

Not exactly a minor detail.

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No, instead of anything even remotely resembling reality, Bono is stoking anger in America at the behest of Trump-hating billionaires who sign his checks, pull out his musak, and power thousands of SpaceX launches.

Honestly, that was enough. For 40 years, Bono repeated the case of every leftist billionaire, was wrong about most of them, flew on private jets while complaining about carbon emissions, and was generally annoying.

Bono is at every Clinton Global Initiative Gala. Every conference on global warming, every “feed the children” campaign run by the UN that mostly enriches African warlords, yes, there is Bono.

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It’s no exaggeration to say that Bono’s main job and role in the universe for decades has been to be the poster boy for global liberalism, with all the smugness that comes with it.

Beautiful moments before Renee Nicole was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis. (Taken from Fox News)

He is absolutely certain that he is not a contemporary music artist in the strict sense of the word. People attend his shows to hear songs from the 1980s, not new releases.

Remember when Apple forced everyone to own the latest U2 album by having it automatically downloaded to devices?

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This was because no one actually wanted the last U2 album. If people wanted it, they wouldn’t give it to us, they would make us take it away.

This tells us something very important about the incentive structures that exist for our celebrities, and perhaps why so many, in fact the vast majority, make left-wing speeches on a regular basis.

Left: Protesters marched in St. Paul last week on Wednesday, January 14, 2026. People gathered outside the Minnesota State Capitol in response to the death of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer in St. Paul, Minn. Right: An ICE agent in front of a residence. A local California Republican Party office received a lengthy letter calling for violence against ICE agents. (Abbie Parr/AP Photo; Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Compare the treatment of Bono to that of his British pop star contemporary Morrissey, whose album “Make-up Is A Lie” took years for any record label to release despite being in extremely high demand for opposing Islamic terrorism and defending Western values.

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Morrissey has been known to never bend the knee to the record industry when told what to say or when to shut up. Bono lives with that knee, lives with that knee, and is probably too determined to ever get back up again.

What message does this send to every musical artist, actor or filmmaker in the world? It says: “Push the progressive Soros agenda, or else.” You can be rich and famous, or you can challenge the sacred truths of the left, but not both.

Bono is now trying to jet off as the Bob Dylan of Generation Z, the toast of campus protests, and become a major and meaningful musical artist again. But it’s clear he’s driven by false moral outrage and another cheesy ballad.

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In the name of love, I beg Bono to shut up now. We can all make our political decisions with or without you, and honestly, after decades of your childish statements, the latter is preferable.

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Protest music of the 1960s was important because it was organic. It was a piece that carried the sounds of that culture. Bono’s neoliberal rhetoric bears no resemblance to the fiery anger, Palestinian flags and anti-government agitation of Black Bloc Antifa squads in 2026.

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His song is nothing but a bloated piece.

Whatever the reason, Bono has been the pope of popular culture for 40 years, its moral arbiter and yardstick. He’s always been terrible at this, and it’s time to put an end to his lukewarm rule.

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