--- title: "Crypto-Obsessed DJ Clowned by Entire Dance Music Community For Playing Trump’s Inauguration" description: "The EDM community has choise words for DJ and crypto bro 3LAU after he chose to bring his stylings to Donald Trump's second inauguration." date: "2025-01-27" modified: "2025-01-27" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/crypto-dj-edm-trump-backlash" categories: - "Blockchain" - "Cryptocurrency" - "Future Society" tags: - "crypto bros" - "donald trump" - "edm" --- # Crypto-Obsessed DJ Clowned by Entire Dance Music Community For Playing Trump’s Inauguration ![The EDM community has choise words for DJ and crypto bro 3LAU after he chose to bring his stylings to Donald Trump's second inauguration.]() *\Image: Jason Koerner / Kevin Carter / Hutton Supancic for SXSW via Getty / Futurism\* ## Mouse Murder Members of the electronic dance music \[EDM\] world have choice words for DJ and crypto bro Justin "3LAU" Blau after he played a set a Donald Trump's second inauguration. Soon after playing the performance, the 34-year-old [prog house DJ waxed prolific]() in an Instagram post about how much of an "honor" it was to play for 30 minutes at Trump's Starlight Ball. Almost immediately, the [founder of the music-as-token platform Royal]() was resoundingly dunked on. Chief among Blau's haters was the similarly numerically-monikered Deadmau5, the mouse-masked industry veteran known for his [scathing rebukes]() of more or less [everything](). "Not a single person in that entire dumbfuck administration has ever known who the fuck you were... and you certainly won’t be remembered by any of em," the Canadian-born DJ, whose real name is Joel Zimmerman, [wrote in response to Blau's post](). "But everyone in this business will remember that you stood behind nazis and convicted felons who would further marginalize the very people who gave you a platform**.**" Zimmermann went on to reference the younger DJ's [hedge fund manager father](), alluding to the generational wealth that provided him. "What very little respect I had for you is gone," Deadmau5 wrote. "So glad you got some drink tickets out of the deal, enjoy them, you nepo pissbaby." ## Bass of Himself While few other artists were as verbose as the mouse-headed one, Blau clearly struck a chord. "Wow dude," commented Finnish "[Sandstorm]()" legend Darude, whose real name is Toni-Ville Virtanen. "Must be proud." "Sad to see this representation & support in the \[EDM\] community," responded drag queen DJ Hexxa, "where this is far from what we stand for." Over on X-formerly-Twitter, the tenor was unsurprisingly more in Blau's favor. "Dude \[Deadmau5\] is a tweaked out lockdown mouse," [tweeted a no-name DJ]() and alleged celebrity astrologer who calls himself the Leo King. "I opened for \[3LAU a\] couple times and he is an awesome human being and DJ." "This whole Nazi thing is way out of hand," the virtually unknown artist continued, a likely reference to Elon [Musk's obvious Sieg Heil]() the same night that 3LAU played the post-inaugural "afters." Blau himself seemed to agree with that sentiment in his own response to the backlash. "I believe firmly in both free speech and the acceleration of tech innovation. These principles have been integral to my identity," [the DJ wrote in an X post](). "I also see crypto and blockchain technology as monumental forces essential to our future as a nation — forces that the previous administration opposed." "PS, I’m Jewish," he [wrote in a follow-up tweet](), a relatively useless post note considering that the president's daughter and son-in-law are also Jewish, and also haven't spoken out about Musk's fascist salute or any of Trump's repeat instances of [siding with Nazis](). **More on crypto curiosities:** [*John McAfee Springs Back From the Grave as an AI, Promoting a New Meme Coin*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()