Before sitting down to attend one of the most controversial dinners in recent memory alongside Ye and former President Donald Trump, alt-right commentator Nicholas J. Fuentes was born on August 18th, 1998 in La Grange Park, Illinois. A former student of Lyons Township High School, Fuentes was active in the student body as a member of the speech team as well as the institution’s Model UN. In fact, in May of 2016, he was one of four students invited to greet Governor Bruce Rauner during his visit to the school and escorted the politician inside of the building. It was also while at Lyons Township that Nick launched his career as a television pundit with his very own series that aired five or six times during his tenure there. Bill Allen, the supervisor of television services for the school would remember Fuentes as someone who stood out from the rest of the pack. Following his graduation in 2016 however, something inside Nick shifted as he took to embracing the extreme right like never before. During a speech he would give that year to an anti-immigration group, Fuentes would admit to having become convinced that immigrants were taking jobs from Americans and dooming the Republican Party to irrelevance – that’s despite the fact that Fuentes himself has claimed to be descended from Mexican immigrants.