U2 singer Bono skewered Donald Trump during a benefit concert in California Wednesday night, saying anyone “who loves the idea of America” would be vehemently opposed to his U.S.-Mexico border wall.

During a Dreamforce benefit concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Bono issued counterpoints to an edited video of some of Mr. Trump’s more controversial statements, Billboard reported.

“The only real question we have for you this evening,” the singer asked. “What is your vision for this great nation?”

“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will have Mexico pay for that wall,” Mr. Trump appeared to respond.

“A wall? Like the Berlin Wall? Like the Great Wall of China?” Bono asked to roaring applause.

“Now candidate, you understand it’s not just Mexican people who are going to have a problem with this wall of yours,” he continued. “It’s everyone who loves the idea of America. Like the Irish, for example. Or the French. Or the Brazilians. Everyone who loves the idea of America, everyone who believes what they read at the foot of the bottom of the statue of liberty: ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.’”

“Good people are not going to stay silent while you run off with the American dream, all right, candidate?” Bono said without ever mentioning Mr. Trump by name. “You hear me candidate? You’re fired!”

U2 went on to perform “Bullet the Blue Sky” with Mr. Trump repeating in the background, “build that wall!”

The proceeds from Wednesday’s sold-out concert will be donated to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, Billboard reported.

Bono hasn’t made his disdain for Mr. Trump a secret. Last month he said the Republican presidential nominee hijacked the GOP and has the potential to hijack “the idea of America.”

“America is like the best idea the world ever came up with. But Donald Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America, potentially,” he told CBS on Sept. 20. “It could destroy it, because of what we’re saying, because America’s not just a country. Ireland is a nice country. Great Britain is a great country — all the rest of it. It’s not an idea. America is an idea, and that idea is bound up in justice and equality for all.”

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