Jimmie Åkesson about being mocked by U2’s Bono: - It was terrible | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan

Last week, U2’s lead singer Bono mocked right wing Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson at a concert in Paris.
Using his «devil clown alter ego», the Irish artist shouted the politicians name while doing nazi salutess.
In Friday´s season premiere of Scandinavian talk show Skavlan, Åkesson was asked about what he felt about the incident by host Fredrik Skavlan (11:11)
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[@gipperbanana]

Bono has been an embarrassment to the irish for decades .

[@placebojesus5652]

The Irish probably dislike Bono more than everyone else in the world does, which is really saying something. Forcing their music onto my iPod and iPhone and then the true violation was making them stupidly hard to erase, that was the last straw. Some of their 1980s stuff was cool but I’ve had enough of them, especially Bono. Sure the dude has a strong impressive voice, and he even does some good things, yet still manages to be an unbearable prick lol.

[@malinsvenssonvalhallaqueen3298]

Bono should be ashamed of himself!!! He is very quick to judge other people and brand them as Nazis when he does not know the reality of what it is like to live in working class neighbourhoods of Sweden (he lives behind huge walls) where we cannot let our daughters out anymore or get verbally abused when going to do the shopping by migrants who make us feel like strangers in our own country!!

[@thegreenknight2658]

Bono is a cockwomble of the highest order, always has been.

[@aprilnelly]

DALAI LAMA TROLLED Bono from MÄLMO last month

[@evelynvsnorwayandswedenfightto]

The truth it hurts and nobody likes it!!!

[@professionalcomplainerandf3006]

Bono made himself look like an idiot with that stunt , it backfire on him big time .

[@Metthos]

Skavlan talks more than the guests. Interrupting and can not refrain from expressing his own view as the most important topic.

[@Hjoerleif]

How about you invite Bono and ask him about this. Maybe ask how Bono would like it if someone did the same to him?

[@jjohanesson9139]

Bono is an Irishmen and a hypocrite. He should stick to music and keep his political opinions to himself. He even sticks his nose into British politics.

[@AckSnus]

@@jjohanesson9139 Yeah, its not easy to have a good perpective on other countries business, i wouldnt claim that i know the middle east that well, and right and left are so different depending on the country, if the left in Denmark would rule sweden, then we wouldnt have the deadliest shootings in Europe from being lowest on the list 20 years ago.

[@stevenews6660]

This Jimmy is great Bono has no idea what is it like being in a shit ass place fighting to have some common decency

[@JohnSmith-bb1sv]

Interesting at 1:29 - he's annoyed because he thinks she doesn't remember the song, when in fact, she is just trying to protect the privacy of their personal relationship and her feelings.

[@AckSnus]

Sounds right, they have seperated, she now is focused on here politicial career, the relationship held her back she thought, but they are on good terms i believe, the also have a kid.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

You'd think a leader of a party like the Sweden Democrats would have a thicker skin.

[@AckSnus]

Thick enough, over 20 years in the parti with only push back…still, he also recovered from getting burned out, parties like Mp though, they often cry in parlament, but ive noticed he get a little teary eyed when in heated debate, but thats more normal than one would think. Sd to this day get weird treatment, people get fired for voting for them, the get called racist every time they debate and inbetween, the socialdemocrats actually balled out their eyes 2010 when Sd got in parlament, S also cant accept people from their party being friends with who are part of Sd, he has probably taken shit like 25 years now, like 10 years ago, you literally could lose your job if people knew that you voted for Sd, still like just a few months ago someone nearly got fired, they are treated like the third reich even though all parties had to take the same stances regardning immigration, id say its thick enough, but as a contrast, like Morgan Johansson is so thick hes borderline retörded, with his snickering smile in serious situations, bolstering about numbers while reality tells different, people getting shot everywhere now, literally noone is spared, old people and little kids, these thugs are brain damaged, they have no care regarding anything anymore, those paranoid, trigger happy barely punishable with this system water heads, going round shooting everyone, when you go shopping, when you sit in your own house, when you make sand castles, Löfven was also to thick, but same there, all the snickering and bolstering with lies made his nose grow like pinoccio, anyway, Jimmie has done well considering, grinding like 25 years, and alot of those years were shid, it has only started being less poop since like 2018 maybe. :)

[@carlotagarcia2939]

Love Jimmie ❤️ I know he’s soulful

[@evelynvsnorwayandswedenfightto]

The truth it hurts and nobody likes it.

[@lmatt88]

Are they all speaking Swedish?

[@peterlundstrom6740]

No.

[@lmatt88]

@@peterlundstrom6740 Thank you very informative

[@peterlundstrom6740]

@@lmatt88 Swedish and norwegian. But Jimmie is from south sweden so he sounds almost danish.

[@lmatt88]

@@peterlundstrom6740 I knew they were similar but not enough to have a fluid conversation like this, specially a dialect from Skåne. Shocking!

[@peterlundstrom6740]

@@lmatt88 I would not call it shocking. :)

[@evelynvsnorwayandswedenfightto]

Thé truth it hurts and nobody likes it

[@scottblack9213]

Bono is a fantastic entertainer and a highly creative man who's lived life to the full and made many people happy over his lifetime. On the flipside, he has never worked a day in his life as he got a record deal with Island when he left school at 19 in 1979. He's been famous and highly regarded since the release of "Boy" in 1980. He has no concept of how working people live since the late 1970's. He's alienated his musical peers and now lives in a world of entertainers, predominantly American. Therein lies the problem. Europe is not America, and particular Sweden, one of, if not the most socially advanced societies in the world, has never been on Bono's radar. As a member of the Davos WEF group, Bono unfortunately is spreading a highly divisive political theory as his main goal as he essentially achieved all his musical ambitions in 1998, ever since then it's been a series of creative diminishing returns.

[@chencharoo]

Los suecos han de estar muy aburridos, y quieren un desastre como Trump o Trump Tropical Bolsonaro!

[@doglover2742]

Varför pratar han inte svenska?!

[@papi5377]

To Jimmi Szwecja dławi sie moimi 4-ma cyframi ? Dławi. Jak calay reszta. Amen.

[@mlo3784]

Demagoger eller bara okunniga? ;)

[@ancientfinn3738]

Another confused celeb

[@bonj0vi]

U2 = boring