Appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, the Irish singer declared "It's not proven, but surveillance suggests 300,000 people have already died from this cut-off, this hard cut of USAID."

The key phrase there being 'it's not proven'.

Bono added "So, there's food rotting in boats and warehouses…This will f**k you off."

"No American will be happy. There is 50,000 tons of food that are stored in Djibouti, South Africa, Dubai, and wait for it, Houston, Texas that is rotting," he further claimed.

"The people who know the codes at the warehouses are fired, they're gone," the singer also suggested.

He then asked Rogan "What do you think? That's not America, is it?"

Rogan responded with actual facts, noting "There have been a lot of organizations that have done a tremendous amount of good all throughout the world. Also, for sure, it was a money-laundering operation."

"For sure, there was no oversight, for sure, billions of dollars were missing," he continued, adding "In fact, trillions that are unaccounted for were sent off to (who knows) where, because there are no receipts."

"The way Elon Musk described it, he said if any of this was done by a public company, the company would be delisted and the executives would be in prison. But in the United States, this is standard," Rogan emphasised.

ZeroHedge notes that "Bono's claim may be based on projections by Brooke Nichols, a mathematician and infectious disease professor at Boston University, who modeled an estimated 300,000 deaths, with over 200,000 of them being children. However, much like weather models, these projections are highly speculative and come with significant uncertainty."

It's just some academic spouting pure speculation based on nothing.