DAVID MARCUS: Memo to Bono: Please shut up and go away

Bono and U2 face criticism over new protest song "American Obituary" targeting Trump's policies. Critics argue the aging rock star misrepresents facts. Opinion DAVID MARCUS: Memo to Bono: Please shut up and go away U2's new single 'American Obituary' references Minneapolis shooting where federal agent killed Renee Good By David Marcus Fox News Published February 21, 2026 9:49pm EST Facebook Twitter Threads Flipboard Comments Print Email Add Fox News on Google close Video Gutfeld: U2’s Bono says he hates his old music 'Gutfeld!' panel discusses the singer admitting he dislikes U2's name and songs in podcast. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! I regret to inform you that Bono, the aging Irish pop star and front man for the band U2, is at it again, lecturing us poors as he always does. This time, it's about supposedly fascist efforts by the Trump administration to arrest and deport illegal immigrant criminals. This week, the band, which hasn’t produced a relevant song since the invention of the iPod, released the single "American Obituary," meant to be a searing protest anthem against President Donald Trump, but actually a ditty just as flaccid as all of Bono’s mailed-in outrage-of-the-day efforts.Take this profound line: "Renee Good born to die free KEVIN O’LEARY WARNS CELEBRITIES TO ‘SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND JUST ENTERTAIN’ AFTER BILLIE EILISH GRAMMYS SPEECH American mother of threeSeventh day January A bullet for еach child, you see"SPRINGSTEEN JABS TRUMP AS 'WANNABE KING' AS FAMED ROCKER LAUNCHES CONCERT TOUR ‘IN DEFENSE OF AMERICA’ Did it happen near a tree? Did she know how to ski? And does Dr. Seuss know that Bono is raiding his notebooks? President Biden will on Saturday award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left-wing billionaire George Soros, and 17 others at a ceremony at the White House. (Shannon Finney/Getty Images, left, Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images, bottom right, FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images, top right, Getty, inset. ) This prancing clown has taken an incredibly fraught and complicated situation in Minneapolis, where a federal agent shot and killed Good, and made it seem like murder. However, Bono doesn’t bother to mention that Good was hitting the officer with her car when she was shot.Not exactly a minor detail.BILL MAHER ROASTS BILLIE EILISH’S ANTI-ICE GRAMMYS SPEECH: ‘KNOWLEDGE’ MATTERS No, instead of anything remotely resembling the truth, Bono is stoking anger in America at the behest of the billionaires who sign his checks, produce his musak, and hate Trump with the power of a thousand SpaceX launches.Honestly, it has been enough. For 40 years Bono has parroted every lefty billionaire's cause, been wrong about most of them, flown around on private jets while complaining about carbon emissions and just generally been annoying.At every Clinton Global Initiative Gala, there’s Bono. Every conference on global warming, every scam "feed the children" campaign run by the UN that mostly enriches African warlords, yep, there’s Bono. JONATHAN TURLEY: 'SAY HER NAME' BECOMES RADICAL RALLYING CRY FOR DEMOCRATS' MOB RULE It is not a stretch to say that Bono’s primary job and role in the universe for decades now has been to be the poster child of global liberalism, with all the smarmy smugness that comes with it. Renee Nicole Good moments before she was shot and killed by federal agent in Minneapolis. (Obtained by Fox News)He’s sure as hell not a contemporary musical artist in any meaningful 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 download on devices?JIMMY FAILLA: BILLIE EILISH CRIES ‘STOLEN LAND’ — THEN GOES HOME TO HER $2.3M CALIFORNIA MANSION That happened because nobody actually wanted the latest U2 album. If people wanted it, they would not have given it to us, they’d have made us buy it. This tells us something very important about the incentive structures that exist for our celebrities, and perhaps, why so many of them, the vast majority, in fact, regularly spout off lefty talking points. Left: Protesters gather in front of the Minnesota State Capitol in response to the death of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer last week, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. Right: An ICE agent outside a residential house. A local California Republican Party office received a long letter calling for violence against ICE agents. (Abbie Parr/AP Photo; Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Compare the treatment of Bono to his Brit pop star contemporary Morrissey, whose upcoming album "Make-up Is A Lie" took years for any record label to release, even with extremely high demand, because it confronts Islamic terrorism and defends Western values. HOLLYWOOD’S SELECTIVE SILENCE ON IRAN EXPOSES THE LIE OF CELEBRITY ACTIVISM Morrissey has famously never bent the knee to the record industry when told what to say or when to shut up. Bono lives on that knee, lives off of that knee, and is likely too set in his ways to ever stand up again