Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Different für Deutschland, or Different for Germany (AfD), celebration 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 matters, has drawn concern and been referred to as a far-right populist celebration by some critics.
The looks comes forward of a German election being held on February 23, which Musk says might “resolve the whole destiny of Europe, possibly the destiny of the world.” Through the speech, he additionally spoke about preserving German tradition and the removing of forms from Brussels, together with being affirmed by Weidel and the viewers in regards to the latest election of Trump, who has advocated for comparable deregulatory and anti-immigration insurance policies.
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You’ll be able to see the complete broadcast from Alice Weidel on X beneath with Musk’s speech beginning round two and a half hours in, or you’ll be able to 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, whats up, everybody. I hope you’ll be able to hear me properly, the audio I’m listening to from my facet is… I can’t hear you. So hopefully this, that is coming by. Please, please affirm that this you’ll be able to hear me. Okay. I don’t know, elevate your hand or one thing. Okay. All good. Okay, nice.
Effectively, to begin with, I wished to actually say that I’m very excited for the AfD and I feel, I feel you’re actually one of the best hope for Germany. I feel some issues that… one thing I feel that’s simply crucial is that folks take satisfaction in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, , it’s okay to be proud to be German. It is a crucial precept.
It’s good to be happy with German tradition, German values, and to not lose that in some kind of multiculturalism that dilutes every little thing. I feel we wish to have distinctive cultures on the planet. We wish to have those who have… we don’t need every little thing to be the identical all over the place, the place it’s only one large kind of soup, , we wish to have one thing the place it’s… you go to totally different nations and also you expertise a unique 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 kind 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 feel there’s, like, frankly, an excessive amount of of a deal with 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 needs to be optimistic and excited a couple of future for Germany.
That’s actually what it’s, to be excited, to be optimistic in regards to the future, to protect German tradition and defend the German folks. And , there are another issues that I feel could be very useful too, which is that, I feel you need extra self-determination for Germany and for the nations in Europe, and fewer from Brussels.
That’s my opinion. I feel there’s an excessive amount of forms from Brussels, an excessive amount of management from kind of international elite. And , after I’ve given talks at these kind of international authorities conferences, what I’ve stated is there needs to be “much less international authorities, there needs to be extra willpower by particular person nations.”
And so I very a lot hope that the AfD does properly, and that Alice Weidel does change into a chancellor. I feel that might be excellent for Germany, and I feel it’s crucial. I hope the German folks unite and strongly help AfD.
You’re doing the suitable factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Battle for an excellent future for Germany! Battle for an excellent future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your pals, persuade everybody, let’s go!
Get excited in regards to the future, and if you wish to make the long run nice, in order for you the long run to be nice, you could make it nice, and combat for the long run to be nice. That’s the way it turns into nice.
Weidel: Let me strive one factor, and I hope you’ll be able to hear me. No, you’ll be able to’t?
Musk: No, I feel I can hear you now.
Weidel: Okay, sure, good. Complete 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 feel we must always combat for an thrilling, brilliant future the place folks will be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you stay up for the long run. And one of the simplest ways to… guarantee the long run is sweet, you must combat for an excellent future on daily basis, and it is going to be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, fantastic future so…
I feel this election arising in Germany is extremely essential. I feel it might resolve the whole 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 contemplate voting for AfD after which, and simply go together with it like a series response, persuade one pal, discuss to a different pal, and say “Hey guys, would you like extra of the final ten years, or would you like one thing totally different?”
And I feel the folks in Germany need one thing totally different, and in order for you one thing totally different, you must vote for a unique celebration. That is only a reality. 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 bought to be performed. And this election is so essential, it’s extraordinarily essential. I don’t say it frivolously after I suppose the way forward for civilization might hold 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 definitely… clearly you may have my full help. I feel the Trump administration can be supportive. So, , I feel the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make quite a lot of sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, … to me, after I take a look at the insurance policies, they’re kind of, they’re widespread sense insurance policies, and identical to President Trump has widespread sense insurance policies, getting issues performed, , getting the federal government out of individuals’s approach so as to get, , you may get issues performed, and giving folks again private freedom and defending the folks from risks.
These are basic issues that, frankly, the present authorities is just not doing. Present authorities is suppressing speech very aggressively and actually, if you suppress freedom of speech, it’s not it’s very tough, if not not possible, to have a real democracy, as a result of freedom of speech is the inspiration of democracy.
Individuals can’t be anticipated to vote in an knowledgeable method if they aren’t in a position to know the reality. So, that is why it’s so essential to need to 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 delicate 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 generally. So anyway, I feel that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every little thing you’ll be able to, full blast. Put each effort you’ll be able to into this election, this… the destiny of the world, I feel, rests upon this election in Germany. It’s extraordinarily basic.
Every part you’ll be able to, 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 passion of the group. And… danke schoen. And, , 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 spotlight 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 will be “one other nail within the coffin.”
“It was astonishing how insanely arduous 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 an extra put up on X on Friday. “In the long run, 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 pal of Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on X following the occasion. “He visited Israel after the October 7 bloodbath through which Hamas terrorists dedicated the worst atrocity towards the Jewish folks because the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s proper to defend itself towards 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 a number of 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 considerations about immigration, inhabitants collapse and the necessity for folks to have extra kids, the civilizational dangers of AI and ambitions to make people multiplanetary by touchdown on Mars, amongst many different adjoining matters.
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 will “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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