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 subjects, has drawn concern and been known 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 may “resolve 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 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 aspect 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.
Properly, initially, I needed 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 essential is that folks take pleasure in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, you realize, it’s okay to be proud to be German. This can be a essential precept.
It’s good to be happy with German tradition, German values, and to not lose that in some form of multiculturalism that dilutes all the things. I feel we need to have distinctive cultures on the earth. We need to have those that have… we don’t need all the things to be the identical in every single place, the place it’s only one huge form of soup, you realize, we need to have one thing the place it’s… you go to totally different nations and also you expertise a special tradition, and it’s distinctive and particular and good and that the German authorities takes actions to guard its residents, and be sure that it seeks the well being and well-being of the German folks.
The German individuals 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 feel there’s, like, frankly, an excessive amount of of a deal with 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 must be optimistic and excited a few 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 you realize, 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 paperwork from Brussels, an excessive amount of management from form of world elite. And you realize, 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 feel that might be excellent for Germany, and I feel it’s essential. I hope the German folks unite and strongly help AfD.
You’re doing the appropriate factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Battle for an ideal future for Germany! Battle for an ideal 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, if you’d like the long run to be nice, you must make it nice, and struggle 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. 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 struggle for an thrilling, vibrant future the place folks will 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 simplest ways to… guarantee the long run is sweet, you need to struggle for an excellent future every single day, and it is going to be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, great future so…
I feel this election arising in Germany is extremely necessary. I feel it may 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 essential 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 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 if you’d like one thing totally different, you need to vote for a special celebration. 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 acquired to be finished. And this election is so necessary, it’s extraordinarily necessary. I don’t say it frivolously after I suppose the way forward for civilization may dangle 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 actually… clearly you might have my full help. I feel the Trump administration can also be supportive. So, you realize, I feel the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make a whole lot of sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you realize… to me, after I have 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 finished, you realize, getting the federal government out of individuals’s approach so to get, you realize, you will get issues finished, 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, whenever you suppress freedom of speech, it’s not it’s very troublesome, if not inconceivable, 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, this is the reason it’s so necessary 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 usually. So anyway, I feel that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do all the things 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 may hear you, however I can see the passion of the group. And… danke schoen. And, you realize, go, go, go, struggle, struggle, struggle.
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 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 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 laborious 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 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 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 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 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 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 will “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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