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 matters, 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 “determine the complete destiny of Europe, perhaps the destiny of the world.” Throughout 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 concerning the latest 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 under with Musk’s speech beginning round two and a half hours in, or you’ll be able to learn the complete transcript under 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 effectively.
Wow, hi there, everybody. I hope you’ll be able to hear me effectively, 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 start with, I needed to essentially 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 delight in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, you understand, it’s okay to be proud to be German. This can be 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 thing. I feel we wish to have distinctive cultures on this planet. We wish to have people who have… we don’t need every thing to be the identical in all places, the place it’s only one massive kind of soup, you understand, we wish to have one thing the place it’s… you go to completely 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 make it possible for it seeks the well being and well-being of the German folks.
The German persons are kind of, actually an historic nation. It goes again hundreds 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 concentrate on previous guilt, and we have to transfer past that. Youngsters shouldn’t be responsible of the sins of their dad and mom and even, not to mention their dad and mom, their nice grandparents, perhaps even. And we ought to be optimistic and excited a few future for Germany.
That’s actually what it’s, to be excited, to be optimistic concerning the future, to protect German tradition and defend the German folks. And you understand, 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 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 you understand, once I’ve given talks at these kind of international authorities conferences, what I’ve mentioned is there ought to be “much less international authorities, there ought to be extra dedication by particular person nations.”
And so I very a lot hope that the AfD does effectively, 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 precise factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Combat for an excellent future for Germany! Combat for an excellent future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your folks, persuade everybody, let’s go!
Get excited concerning the future, and if you wish to make the longer term nice, if you would like the longer term to be nice, it’s good to make it nice, and battle for the longer term to be nice. That’s the way it turns into nice.
Weidel: Let me attempt 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. Whole 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 battle for an thrilling, brilliant future the place folks may be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you look ahead to the longer term. And the easiest way to… guarantee the longer term is sweet, it’s a must to battle for an excellent future day by day, 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 might determine the complete destiny of Europe, perhaps 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 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 completely different?”
And I feel the folks in Germany need one thing completely different, and if you would like one thing completely different, it’s a must 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 obtained to be executed. And this election is so necessary, it’s extraordinarily necessary. I don’t say it flippantly once I suppose the way forward for civilization might cling 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 folks to vote for AfD.”
And also you definitely… clearly you will have my full help. I feel the Trump administration can be supportive. So, you understand, I feel the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make numerous sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you understand… to me, once I take a look at the insurance policies, they’re kind of, they’re frequent sense insurance policies, and similar to President Trump has frequent sense insurance policies, getting issues executed, you understand, getting the federal government out of individuals’s method in an effort to get, you understand, you will get issues executed, and giving folks again private freedom and defending the folks from risks.
These are elementary issues that, frankly, the present authorities just isn’t 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 unattainable, to have a real democracy, as a result of freedom of speech is the inspiration of democracy.
Folks 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, for this reason it’s so necessary to must 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 method. It’s not a democratic method.
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 feel that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every 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 elementary.
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 gang. And… danke schoen. And, you understand, 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 mentioned seemed 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 could 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 shifting my hand from my coronary heart to the viewers,” Musk wrote in a further publish 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 mentioned 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 wherein Hamas terrorists dedicated the worst atrocity in opposition to the Jewish folks for the reason that 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 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 could “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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