The Coachella star who performed an anti-Trump administration video to festivalgoers grew up a wealthy child in New York Metropolis and socialized with the president when he was youthful.
A 1991 picture exhibits The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas standing behind Trump and his daughter Ivanka with a VIP visitor badge pinned to his chest.
The picture was taken by superstar photographer Ron Galella on the Maybelline Presents Look of the Yr occasion on the Plaza Lodge in Manhattan.
On the time, Casablancas was a privileged baby who led an life-style match for elites. His father, John Casablancas, was the founding father of Elite Mannequin Administration and his mom Jeanette Christiansen was a former Miss Denmark.
Trump was significantly linked together with his father and was carefully concerned with Casablancas’ Elite’s Look of the Yr competitors.
John was additionally linked with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a 2019 lawsuit, which alleged he despatched a underage mannequin to him.
The youthful Casablancas attended elite faculties in New York Metropolis and Switzerland earlier than forming the band in 1998.
Casablancas life kinds a stark distinction with the political message he confirmed to followers at Coachella over the weekend. Because the band performed completed its last music, a video montage performed.
The montage depicts a college being blown up, captioned “final college standing in Gaza.” Then the members obtained up and left the stage whereas the clip continued enjoying.
It accuses the CIA of enacting regime change in overseas nations and implicitly criticized Israel’s bombing of Gaza and america’ bombing of Iran.
The music the band was enjoying alongside the footage, “Oblivius,” options the lyrics: “What facet you standing on?” Casablancas signaled earlier than the efficiency that the band would get political.
Casablancas, through the band’s April 11 present, addressed the upcoming automated registration for the army draft.
“You guys excited in regards to the draft? Oh wait — not the NFL draft,” he informed the viewers. “In six months, I believe everybody who’s eligible is gonna should register for the army. I hope to steer one of many Coachella models. The sexiest unit in our proud army, I’m certain.”
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