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On 27 December 2017, Rolling Stone magazine published an interview with singer Bono, in which the U2 frontman discussed the state of his band, the state of the world and what he learned from almost dying along with subjects such as making streaming-friendly music, the refugee crisis in Europe, and how music has gotten very girly. A few days later, the web site Neon Nettle published an unusual take on that interview, reporting (under the subhead Irish rocker of U2 colludes with elites remove president) that Bono had proclaimed Donald Trump is destroying America, [and] we must stop him: The Neon Nettle report was unusual because it was completely fabricated: Bono said nothing during his Rolling Stone interview about colluding with elites to remove President Trump from office, nor did he state that he believed Donald Trump is destroying America. Bono was not specifically asked about, nor did he discuss, Trump at all during the course of his interview — interviewer Jann Wenner posed some broad questions about politics, to which Bono offered some oblique replies that indirectly referenced President Trump (without ever mentioning him by name), such as the following: Neon Nettle also reported that Back in January this year U2 announced in an interview that they were going on strike to protest Trump, by canceling their upcoming album release and tour until the President-elect resigns. Looks like that didn't work out. All of this was also false: U2 didn't go on strike in 2017, they continued to tour throughout the year, and they delayed (but didn't cancel) the release of their Songs of Experience album in order to address some recent political events occurring as the album was in production. This misreporting was all to be expected, as Neon Nettle is part of a network of fake news sites that deals in invented stories and clickbait.
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