Max HeyraudBob Geldof has expressed his outrage over two major global issues: the United States government’s decision to freeze foreign aid and Elon Musk’s recent comments dismissing empathy as a weakness.
Speaking in Australia before of his An Evening with Bob Geldof tour, the iconic musician and campaigner did not mince words, branding the aid cuts as a “war on the weakest and most vulnerable” and asking young people to boycott Musk’s companies.
“The strongest nation on Earth, the most powerful men on the planet, the richest men in the world, have decided to wage war on the weakest and most vulnerable,” he told Australian media.
The Boomtown Rats frontman also criticised tech mogul Elon Musk, whose expanding influence in politics and culture has prompted debate. Geldof was especially angered by Musk’s recent claim that empathy is a weakness in Western civilisation. “Empathy works,” Geldof countered. “That flies in the face of that sociopathic moron Elon Musk.”
He went further, calling on young people to take direct action by boycotting Musk’s businesses, including Tesla, X (formerly Twitter), and Starlink. “If I was 15, I would organize a boycott of everything Musk,” he said. “Demand your parents get off X, don’t use Starlink, get rid of the Tesla—switch it for a BYD Auto or something else.”
