Live Aid founder Bob Geldof has slammed Donald Trump, claiming the charity is getting emails seeking help because of the US President's "dearth of kindness". The Band Aid Trust, which administers the funds from the Band Aid and Live Aid, was set up in 1985 to help relieve hunger and poverty, primarily in Ethiopia and surrounding areas. While the famine that inspired the project is long over the charity continues to raise and distribute funds to this day and Bob blames Trump for some of the "horrors" he receives daily messages about.

"I woke up this morning to 12 new horrors on the email. It (the charity's work) continues, because of Trump's dearth of kindness, you know, the new cruelty. When a Ketamine-crazed fool like Elon Musk declares eight weeks ago that the great weakness of human civilisation is empathy, you are obliged to say; 'No, Elon, you moron, the glue of humanity is empathy.'

"The day before yesterday we [the Band Aid charitable trust] gave money to the UNHCR and all the UN organisations and all the NGOs who are now desperate, as their funds have been withdrawn." He concluded: "We've had to up the ante," he told The Sunday Independent.

This isn't the first time Geldof has slammed Trump's decision to withdraw aid from some of the poorest countries in the world. in the middle of a gig in Dublin on Sunday, June 1 this year he was performing with his band The Boomtown Rats when he launched into a tirade about cuts to US aid funding.

Claiming Trump and Musk had "declared a war on the weakest, poorest, most vulnerable people on our planet," Geldof did not hold back in a furious rant.

“A couple of Irish singers have been going around the world this week, Bruce in London, Bono in LA and us here, and all of us have said the same thing, that the strongest nation in the world, the most powerful man on the planet, and the richest ever human being in the history of the world, on the first of February 2025 declared a war on the weakest, poorest, most vulnerable people on our planet," he said.

His rant continued: "When that f***ing hedge-trimming, catatonic f***er... Musk decided that he would cut US aid, food, and medicine. Since that moment, he was wielding his hedge-trimmer, 300,000 of the poorest people in the world have died because of that f***," he told the crowd

On March 10 this year Washington confirmed that 83% of programs who had funds committed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), would be abandoned and that the independent agency, created in 1961, would be closed. The agency officially shut its doors on July 1.

Following the announcement the United Nations AIDS chief warned that a cut to US funding could lead to over six million further deaths worldwide from the disease over the next four years. Winnie Byanyima also said there will be an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day.

She claimed that the decision to pause foreign aid was already having devastating consequences and urged the White House to reverse the decision. Many HIV treatment and prevention programmes funded by the US have received stop-work orders. This has led to the closure of mother and baby clinics in Africa and severe shortages of life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines.