U2 frontman Bono has banned US president Donald Trump from the band's current tour in the States.
Speaking to the Irish Mirror ahead of the Dublin rockers' Joshua Tree 2017 gig in Seattle on Sunday night the singer and activist blasted: "People who voted for Trump are welcome here but he’s not."
Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton are on the road to mark 30 years since the release of their breakthrough album, The Joshua Tree.
The rock superstar told how he is furious with Trump who is cutting the funding in the fight against HIV.
He said: "Bill Gates will be here tonight, he will tell you ‘but that doesn’t work guys.' He can’t level it off because people will die’.
“So I don’t wanna (Trump)."
Bono, 57, also revealed details of the band's new album, a follow-up to 2015's Songs of Innocence, which is set for release next year.
The star said that RTE sports pundit Eamon Dunphy inspired a track on the new offering.
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He explained: "Eamon Dunphy had a very big influence on our new single.
"He said when speaking of my missus that 'Ali was the best thing about Bono.' So we’ve written a song called You’re The Best Thing About Me."
In an intimate chat with Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton before they hit the stage of Seattle's CenturyLink Field stadium Bono told how it's getting harder to leave his Dublin home in Dalkey.
"We have become somewhat domesticated animals. I don’t think that was natural for me, I was a person who slept on Gavin Friday’s couch, I’ve been moving since I was in my early teens.
"For me, a band was a replacement for the family I didn’t feel I had, and then the wanderlust came with it. Wherever we go, wherever we are that’s where it is. Only recently I realised I had a home and it was Dublin."
He added: "I came home after the Paris show and I was walking through the house, I often do walk through the house at night, and walk in and see the kids while they’re asleep and I just felt I really like being at home. That makes it harder to leave."
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Some 62,000 fans turned out to see the second night of U2's anniversary tour in Seattle, the band kicked off the tour in Canada's Vancouver on Friday night.
It was the band's sixth performance in the city and their first US tour performance since July 2015.
Hundreds of die-hard fans had been queueing since Friday for Sunday night's show.
Among the crowds were superfans that first saw the Joshua Tree tour 30 years ago and have been following the Dublin rockers around the globe.
Nick Buckmaster, from San Francisco, has been to a staggering 85 U2 shows.
He told the Irish Mirror: "The first show was in San Francisco when I was 15 years old on the War tour in 1983.
"I saw the original Joshua Tour back in 1987. That was the best show I've ever seen in my life.
"I saw them in Dublin in 09, three times in Croke Park, in Europe in Japan."
Buckmaster said that the Beautiful Day hitmakers have always been "generous and warm with their fans."
Tina Vambeveien, from Belgium, has seen U2 play a whopping 47 times after first seeing them play when she was just 13.
She said: "I saw the Joshua Tree tour the first time around. I saw the show in Vancouver, opening night is always special.
"It was a bit weird to hear the old songs but it was fantastic to hear them live in so many years.
"U2 give me goosebumps. That's why I still keep coming out. The first time I saw them I was 13 years old."
She added: "These days I can afford to go and see a lot of the shows when they tour.
"U2 shows are my holiday. We go see the city and meet friends. It's great."
U2 play the 11-track album in full every night on the anniversary tour, which comes to Croke Park on July 22.
In addition to new track The Little Things That Give You Away, U2 dusted off songs that they hadn't performed together in decades, including The Joshua Tree's Trip Through Your Wires.
The Joshua Tree 2017 Tour has also forced U2 to perform the album's Red Hill Mining Town live for the first time ever.
Fans on Sunday night were also treated to hits Sunday Bloody Sunday, Beautiful Day, One and Elevation.