Bernie Sanders Crashes Coachella, Hits Crowd With Anti-Trump Screed: ‘Turn Away at Your Own Peril’Breitbart News 13 Apr 2025
(AFP) — US senator Bernie Sanders became one of Coachella’s top cameos so far, drawing a massive crowd on Saturday as he made a pitstop at the premier music festival.
Screaming fans sprinted over, camera phones in hand, to capture the politician’s unannounced speech that followed a blockbuster set from superstar Charli XCX at a neighboring stage.
“I’m not gonna be long but this country faces some very difficult challenges and the future of what happens to America depends on your generation. You can turn away and ignore what goes on but you do it at your own peril. We need you to stand up to fight for justice,” Sanders said to raucous cheers at the major California desert double weekend that marks the unofficial start of music festival season.
Earlier in the day Sanders and Democrat representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a rally that organizers said drew 36,000 people, a stop on their own “Fighting Oligarchy” tour that featured musicians including Neil Young, Maggie Rogers and Joan Baez.
Speaking under a full moon at Coachella, Sanders delivered urged crowds to stand up against billionaires, health insurance companies, and US President Donald Trump’s administation.
“Now we’ve got a president of the United States,” Sanders began, before the crowd’s boos quickly drowned out Trump’s name.
“I agree,” Sanders continued. “He thinks that climate change is a hoax. He is dangerously wrong, and you and I are going to have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.”
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