Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Different für Deutschland, or Different for Germany (AfD), get together 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 known as a far-right populist get together by some critics.
The looks comes forward of a German election being held on February 23, which Musk says may “determine the whole destiny of Europe, possibly the destiny of the world.” Through the speech, he additionally spoke about preserving German tradition and the elimination of paperwork from Brussels, together with being affirmed by Weidel and the viewers in regards to the current election of Trump, who has advocated for related deregulatory and anti-immigration insurance policies.
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You’ll be able to see the total broadcast from Alice Weidel on X beneath with Musk’s speech beginning round two and a half hours in, or you may learn the total 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 nicely.
Wow, whats up, everybody. I hope you may hear me nicely, the audio I’m listening to from my facet is… I can’t hear you. So hopefully this, that is coming by way of. Please, please verify that this you may hear me. Okay. I don’t know, elevate your hand or one thing. Okay. All good. Okay, nice.
Effectively, to start with, I wished to actually say that I’m very excited for the AfD and I feel, I feel you’re actually the perfect hope for Germany. I feel some issues that… one thing I feel that’s simply essential is that individuals take satisfaction in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, you recognize, it’s okay to be proud to be German. It is a essential precept.
It’s good to be happy with German tradition, German values, and to not lose that in some kind of multiculturalism that dilutes all the pieces. I feel we wish to have distinctive cultures on the planet. We wish to have folks that have… we don’t need all the pieces to be the identical all over the place, the place it’s only one large kind of soup, you recognize, we wish to have one thing the place it’s… you go to totally different international locations 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 guarantee that it seeks the well being and well-being of the German individuals.
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 give attention to previous guilt, and we have to transfer past that. Kids 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 ought 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 shield the German individuals. And you recognize, there are another issues that I feel can be very useful too, which is that, I feel you need extra self-determination for Germany and for the international locations in Europe, and fewer from Brussels.
That’s my opinion. I feel there’s an excessive amount of paperwork from Brussels, an excessive amount of management from kind of international elite. And you recognize, after I’ve given talks at these kind of international authorities conferences, what I’ve stated is there ought to be “much less international authorities, there ought to be extra dedication by particular person international locations.”
And so I very a lot hope that the AfD does nicely, and that Alice Weidel does grow to be a chancellor. I feel that might be excellent for Germany, and I feel it’s essential. I hope the German individuals unite and strongly assist AfD.
You’re doing the correct factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Struggle for an incredible future for Germany! Struggle for an incredible future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your mates, persuade everybody, let’s go!
Get excited in regards to the future, and if you wish to make the long run nice, if you need the long run to be nice, you might want to make it nice, and battle for the long run to be nice. That’s the way it turns into nice.
Weidel: Let me attempt one factor, and I hope you may hear me. No, you may’t?
Musk: No, I feel I can hear you now.
Weidel: Okay, sure, good. Total viewers, we want you, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, all the perfect to make America nice once more. You’re the perfect. God’s blessing.
Musk: Precisely. I imply, I feel we must always battle for an thrilling, shiny future the place individuals could be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you sit up for the long run. And one of the best ways to… guarantee the long run is sweet, you must battle for a very good 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 necessary. I feel it may determine 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 essential to speak to your family and friends and persuade them to think about voting for AfD after which, and simply go together with it like a sequence response, persuade one buddy, discuss to a different buddy, 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 individuals in Germany need one thing totally different, and if you need one thing totally different, you must vote for a unique get together. 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 individuals, persuade individuals, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s obtained to be carried out. And this election is so necessary, it’s extraordinarily necessary. I don’t say it calmly after I assume the way forward for civilization may grasp on this election.
So when one thing is so necessary, it’s you actually need to say, “Okay, you’re going to go all out to persuade individuals to vote for AfD.”
And also you definitely… clearly you’ve got my full assist. I feel the Trump administration can be supportive. So, you recognize, I feel the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make loads of sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you recognize… 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 carried out, you recognize, getting the federal government out of individuals’s approach in an effort to get, you recognize, you may get issues carried out, and giving individuals again private freedom and defending the individuals from risks.
These are basic issues that, frankly, the present authorities is just not 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 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 don’t seem to be capable of know the reality. So, for this reason it’s so necessary to need to have freedom of speech, so individuals 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 individuals 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 isn’t a democratic strategy.
So there must be… to revive freedom to the individuals of Germany and have freedom of speech and have much less authorities oppression normally. So anyway, I feel that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do all the pieces you may, full blast. Put each effort you may into this election, this… the destiny of the world, I feel, rests upon this election in Germany. It’s extraordinarily basic.
The whole lot you may, please go all out.
Weidel: Thanks, nice. All the perfect for you, blessings.
Musk: Alright, and sadly, Alice, I can’t hear you. I want I may hear you, however I can see the keenness of the gang. And… danke schoen. And, you recognize, go, go, go, battle, battle, battle.
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 seemed 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 known 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 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 an extra publish 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 assist this week from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated the Tesla and SpaceX head was “being falsely smeared.”
“Elon is a good buddy 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 individuals for the reason that 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 related issues about immigration, inhabitants collapse and the necessity for individuals to have extra kids, 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 related 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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