The Coachella star who played an anti-Trump administration video to festivalgoers grew up a rich kid in New York City and socialized with the president when he was younger.
A 1991 photo shows The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas standing behind Trump and his daughter Ivanka with a VIP guest badge pinned to his chest.
The photo was taken by celebrity photographer Ron Galella at the Maybelline Presents Look of the Year event at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
At the time, Casablancas was a privileged child who led an lifestyle fit for elites. His father, John Casablancas, was the founder of Elite Model Management and his mother Jeanette Christiansen was a former Miss Denmark.
Trump was particularly linked with his father and was closely involved with Casablancas’ Elite’s Look of the Year competition.
John was also linked with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a 2019 lawsuit, which alleged he sent a underage model to him.
The younger Casablancas attended elite schools in New York City and Switzerland before forming the band in 1998.
Casablancas life forms a stark contrast with the political message he showed to fans at Coachella over the weekend. As the band played finished its final song, a video montage played.
The montage depicts a school being blown up, captioned “last university standing in Gaza.” Then the members got up and left the stage while the clip continued playing.
It accuses the CIA of enacting regime change in foreign countries and implicitly criticized Israel’s bombing of Gaza and the United States’ bombing of Iran.
The song the band was playing alongside the footage, “Oblivius,” features the lyrics: “What side you standing on?” Casablancas signaled before the performance that the band would get political.
Casablancas, during the band’s April 11 show, addressed the upcoming automatic registration for the military draft.
“You guys excited about the draft? Oh wait — not the NFL draft,” he told the audience. “In six months, I think everyone who’s eligible is gonna have to register for the military. I hope to lead one of the Coachella units. The sexiest unit in our proud military, I’m sure.”
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