Bono is opining about the election.

The Irish singer/songwriter, whose band raked in $55 million in the last year — making U2 the third highest-paid musical group of 2016, according to Forbes — sat down with Charlie Rose on Tuesday and trashed Donald Trump.

“Republicans are very close friends of mine.”

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Trading his usual rose-colored glasses for the more appropriate blue-tinted ones for his “CBS This Morning” interview, Bono put his head down on the table when asked about Trump being an agent for change for the country.

“America is like the best idea the world ever came up with,” Bono said. “But Donald Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America — potentially.”

In his opinion.

He went on to say, “America is an idea and that idea is bound up in justice and equality for all … This is not from Donald Trump’s playbook. I have spent 20 years [being] fiercely bipartisan, and I’m going to stay that way. I have enormous respect for the party of Abraham Lincoln … Republicans are very close friends of mine.”

But is Bono really bipartisan?

In August, according to the latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s private State Department emails to be released, Bono was found to be a donor to the Clinton Foundation, presumably as part of his pro bono work, reported The Guardian. He emailed Hillary to ask for help in getting a live link to the International Space Station during his concerts.

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And last year, he gave Hillary and Bill a shout-out during a U2 concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, as the band wrapped up its North American tour. The former first couple were in front-row seats.

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So it shouldn’t be a big surprise that Bono is now trash-talking Trump.

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“I don’t think he’s a Republican. He’s hijacked the party. I think he’s trying to hijack the idea of America,” said Bono. “And I think it’s bigger than all of us. I think it’s really dangerous.”

He added, “I’m Irish. I don’t have a vote. And I can’t be telling people how to vote and don’t want to, but I have a voice, and I can say that who sits in that office really affects everyone in this world.”

Meanwhile, Bono also dropped by the Clinton Global Initiative meetings in New York this week to appear on a panel discussion.