{"id":190318,"date":"2026-02-23T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190318\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:04:08","slug":"danny-trejo-comes-to-fresno-city-college-the-rampage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190318\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Trejo Comes To Fresno City College \u2013 The Rampage Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students and visitors gathered at Fresno City College on Jan. 27 when actor Danny Trejo visited campus to speak about his life, career and personal journey.<\/p>\n

Known for his roles in films such as \u201cMachete\u201d and \u201cSpy Kids,\u201d Trejo spoke to students about overcoming addiction, making positive choices and finding purpose in helping other people recover from addiction.<\/p>\n

The event drew a large crowd of students, staff and members of the community excited to hear Trejo\u2019s story in person as he shared experiences from his childhood, time before acting and how his life led him into Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Once the OAB auditorium was at full capacity, audience members were redirected to a remote viewing area to watch a livestream of the event.<\/p>\n

Trejo expressed that he doesn\u2019t think his current day-to-day life is difficult, considering the things he\u2019s experienced in the past.<\/p>\n

Trejo described growing up surrounded by alcohol and drug use and explained how addiction seemed normal to him at a young age.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t want to go to a family gathering without alcohol,\u201d Trejo said.<\/p>\n

Because substance use was normalized growing up, he began smoking and drinking frequently as a teenager and continued into adulthood.<\/p>\n

\u201cI chased being 12 years old with no worries until I was 24,\u201d Trejo said.<\/p>\n

Trejo spoke about how his drug use led him to jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou do drugs, you go to jail. It was like physics,\u201d Trejo said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Actor Danny Trejo speaking to students in the Old Administration Building at Fresno City College on Jan. 27. (Photo by: Joel Arellano<\/a>)<\/p>\n

During imprisonment, Trejo discovered boxing and faith, which became a turning point in his life.<\/p>\n

Trejo noticed the importance of helping others as a path of recovery and personal fulfillment.<\/p>\n

After his release in 1969, he committed to sobriety and has now been sober for 54 years.<\/p>\n

Trejo\u2019s acting career began in 1985 after he went to a film set to help someone seeking sobriety and was offered a small role. He later became one of Hollywood\u2019s most recognizable latino actors.<\/p>\n

He appears in more than 500 films and television projects, including \u201cDesperado,\u201d \u201cHeat,\u201d \u201cFrom Dusk Till Dawn\u201d and the \u201cSpy Kids\u201c franchise, where he got a main role as \u201cIsador \u2018Machete\u2019 Cortez.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything good happens as a result of helping someone else,\u201d Trejo said. \u201cOnce I gave up drugs and started helping people, life got so good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of acting, Trejo works as a substance abuse counselor and advocates for recovery programs.<\/p>\n

FCC President Whisenhunt introduced a counselor from the rising scholars program to the audience who presented Trejo with a t-shirt and mug.<\/p>\n

Audience member Presley Salas said Trejo\u2019s message was relevant to students.<\/p>\n

Salas explained that substance use is often normalized among young people and that Trejo helped highlight how everyday drinking can quietly turn into addiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you start drinking every day, it can really turn your life upside down, and I think it\u2019s important for people to recognize they have a problem and I think he pointed that out really well,\u201d Salas said.<\/p>\n

Trejo concluded his message by encouraging students to pursue their goals and learn from mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s better to shoot for the moon and miss than to shoot for nothing,\u201d Trejo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students and visitors gathered at Fresno City College on Jan. 27 when actor Danny Trejo visited campus to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-190318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}