Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Different für Deutschland, or Different for Germany (AfD), social gathering over the weekend, forward of an upcoming election within the nation subsequent month.
On Saturday, AfD candidate Alice Weidel posted a video broadcast of the occasion on X, which included a roughly-ten-minute speech from Musk, following his appointment final week as an advisor for newly-inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump. The AfD, which advocates for German nationalism, halting immigration into the nation, preserving German tradition and different associated subjects, has drawn concern and been referred to as a far-right populist social gathering by some critics.
The looks comes forward of a German election being held on February 23, which Musk says might “resolve the complete destiny of Europe, possibly the destiny of the world.” In the course of the speech, he additionally spoke about preserving German tradition and the removing of paperwork from Brussels, together with being affirmed by Weidel and the viewers concerning the current election of Trump, who has advocated for comparable deregulatory and anti-immigration insurance policies.
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You may see the complete broadcast from Alice Weidel on X beneath with Musk’s speech beginning round two and a half hours in, or you may learn the complete transcript beneath that.
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— Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) January 25, 2025
Musk: Are you able to hear me? Okay, sure, sadly, I can’t hear you very properly.
Wow, hi there, everybody. I hope you may hear me properly, the audio I’m listening to from my aspect is… I can’t hear you. So hopefully this, that is coming by means of. Please, please affirm that this you may hear me. Okay. I don’t know, elevate your hand or one thing. Okay. All good. Okay, nice.
Properly, to begin with, I needed to actually say that I’m very excited for the AfD and I believe, I believe you’re actually one of the best hope for Germany. I believe some issues that… one thing I believe that’s simply crucial is that individuals take delight in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, you already know, it’s okay to be proud to be German. It is a crucial precept.
It’s good to be pleased with German tradition, German values, and to not lose that in some form of multiculturalism that dilutes every thing. I believe we wish to have distinctive cultures on the planet. We wish to have folks that have… we don’t need every thing to be the identical in every single place, the place it’s only one huge form of soup, you already know, we wish to have one thing the place it’s… you go to totally different nations and also you expertise a distinct tradition, and it’s distinctive and particular and good and that the German authorities takes actions to guard its residents, and ensure that it seeks the well being and well-being of the German folks.
The German persons are form of, actually an historical nation. It goes again 1000’s of years. Learn Julius Caesar’s account of, like, first encountering the German tribes within the Gallic campaigns. And he was like, “Very spectacular. These are very, very highly effective warriors.”
I believe there’s, like, frankly, an excessive amount of of a give attention to previous guilt, and we have to transfer past that. Youngsters shouldn’t be responsible of the sins of their mother and father and even, not to mention their mother and father, their nice grandparents, possibly even. And we must be optimistic and excited a couple of future for Germany.
That’s actually what it’s, to be excited, to be optimistic concerning the future, to protect German tradition and shield the German folks. And you already know, there are another issues that I believe can be very useful too, which is that, I believe you need extra self-determination for Germany and for the nations in Europe, and fewer from Brussels.
That’s my opinion. I believe there’s an excessive amount of paperwork from Brussels, an excessive amount of management from form of world elite. And you already know, after I’ve given talks at these form of world authorities conferences, what I’ve stated is there must be “much less world authorities, there must be extra dedication by particular person nations.”
And so I very a lot hope that the AfD does properly, and that Alice Weidel does grow to be a chancellor. I believe that may be excellent for Germany, and I believe it’s crucial. I hope the German folks unite and strongly help AfD.
You’re doing the fitting factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Combat for a terrific future for Germany! Combat for a terrific future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your pals, persuade everybody, let’s go!
Get excited concerning the future, and if you wish to make the longer term nice, if you’d like the longer term to be nice, you have to make it nice, and combat for the longer term to be nice. That’s the way it turns into nice.
Weidel: Let me strive one factor, and I hope you may hear me. No, you may’t?
Musk: No, I believe I can hear you now.
Weidel: Okay, sure, good. Total viewers, we want you, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, all one of the best to make America nice once more. You’re one of the best. God’s blessing.
Musk: Precisely. I imply, I believe we must always combat for an thrilling, brilliant future the place folks could be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you stay up for the longer term. And the easiest way to… guarantee the longer term is sweet, it’s important to combat for future every single day, and it will likely be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, great future so…
I believe this election arising in Germany is extremely essential. I believe it might resolve the complete destiny of Europe, possibly the destiny of the world. That’s the significance of this election. In order that’s why it’s crucial to speak to your family and friends and persuade them to think about voting for AfD after which, and simply go along with it like a sequence response, persuade one good friend, discuss to a different good friend, and say “Hey guys, would you like extra of the final ten years, or would you like one thing totally different?”
And I believe the folks in Germany need one thing totally different, and if you’d like one thing totally different, it’s important to vote for a distinct social gathering. That is only a truth. That is logic.
So you’re the way forward for Germany. Make it occur, however I can’t emphasize sufficient: go on the market, discuss to folks, persuade folks, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s received to be achieved. And this election is so essential, it’s extraordinarily essential. I don’t say it flippantly after I suppose the way forward for civilization might grasp on this election.
So when one thing is so essential, it’s you actually need to say, “Okay, you’re going to go all out to persuade folks to vote for AfD.”
And also you actually… clearly you’ve got my full help. I believe the Trump administration can also be supportive. So, you already know, I believe the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make plenty of sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you already know… to me, after I take a look at the insurance policies, they’re form of, they’re frequent sense insurance policies, and identical to President Trump has frequent sense insurance policies, getting issues achieved, you already know, getting the federal government out of individuals’s method as a way to get, you already know, you will get issues achieved, and giving folks again private freedom and defending the folks from risks.
These are elementary issues that, frankly, the present authorities shouldn’t be doing. Present authorities is suppressing speech very aggressively and actually, once you suppress freedom of speech, it’s not it’s very tough, if not unimaginable, to have a real democracy, as a result of freedom of speech is the muse of democracy.
Individuals can’t be anticipated to vote in an knowledgeable method if they don’t seem to be in a position to know the reality. So, that is why it’s so essential to should have freedom of speech, so folks could make an knowledgeable vote, and it may be a real democracy. However this isn’t what the present authorities has been doing. They’ve been suppressing freedom of speech and placing folks in jail for even gentle criticisms of politicians or social media posts. That is loopy. That is, that is, that is, frankly, a totalitarian strategy. It’s not a democratic strategy.
So there must be… to revive freedom to the folks of Germany and have freedom of speech and have much less authorities oppression basically. So anyway, I believe that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every thing you may, full blast. Put each effort you may into this election, this… the destiny of the world, I believe, rests upon this election in Germany. It’s extraordinarily elementary.
All the things you may, please go all out.
Weidel: Thanks, nice. All one of the best for you, blessings.
Musk: Alright, and sadly, Alice, I can’t hear you. I want I might hear you, however I can see the keenness of the gang. And… danke schoen. And, you already know, go, go, go, combat, combat, combat.
Elon Musk’s previous conferences with different world leaders and Donald Trump’s re-election
The speech follows Musk’s look at Trump’s inauguration earlier this week, throughout which the Tesla CEO carried out what many stated gave the impression to be a Nazi salute, which he later defended as a gesture meant to focus on his assertion that his “coronary heart goes out to all of you” after thanking the viewers for serving to to make Trump’s victory occur.
After the inauguration, Musk downplayed the gesture in a flurry of posts, together with one on X, noting that he had apparently been referred to as each a Zionist and a Nazi. In others, he reiterated his disdain for legacy media, including that it might be “one other nail within the coffin.”
“It was astonishing how insanely onerous legacy media tried to cancel me for saying ‘my coronary heart goes out to you’ and transferring my hand from my coronary heart to the viewers,” Musk wrote in a further put up on X on Friday. “Ultimately, this deception will simply be one other nail within the coffin of legacy media.”
He additionally gained help this week from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated the Tesla and SpaceX head was “being falsely smeared.”
“Elon is a superb good friend of Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on X following the occasion. “He visited Israel after the October 7 bloodbath by which Hamas terrorists dedicated the worst atrocity in opposition to the Jewish folks because the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s proper to defend itself in opposition to genocidal terrorists and regimes who search to annihilate the one and solely Jewish state. I thank him for this.”
Musk has additionally met with a number of world leaders over the previous few years, even earlier than his official endorsement of Trump final July. He has beforehand held conferences with Netanyahu and several other others, together with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Argentina President Javier Milei, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, Hungary President Katalin Novák, Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Namibia Dr. Nangolo Mbumba, Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, and a number of officers in China, amongst many others nonetheless.
Many of those conversations have included comparable issues about immigration, inhabitants collapse and the necessity for folks to have extra youngsters, the civilizational dangers of AI and ambitions to make people multiplanetary by touchdown on Mars, amongst many different adjoining subjects.
Throughout marketing campaign occasions main as much as the November election, Musk used comparable language to his January speech for the AfD, noting that “President Trump should win to protect the Structure” and “democracy,” and saying that it might “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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