Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Different für Deutschland, or Different for Germany (AfD), occasion 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 occasion by some critics.
The looks comes forward of a German election being held on February 23, which Musk says might “resolve your complete destiny of Europe, possibly the destiny of the world.” Throughout 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 possibly can see the total 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 total 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 properly.
Wow, good day, 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 via. Please, please verify 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.
Nicely, to begin 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 folks take pleasure in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, , 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 every part. I feel we need to have distinctive cultures on the earth. We need to have those who have… we don’t need every part to be the identical all over the place, the place it’s only one large kind of soup, , we need 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 guarantee that it seeks the well being and well-being of the German folks.
The German individuals are kind of, actually an historic 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. 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 concerning the future, to protect German tradition and shield the German folks. And , 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 kind of world elite. And , after I’ve given talks at these kind of world authorities conferences, what I’ve mentioned is there needs to be “much less world 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 turn out 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 assist AfD.
You’re doing the best factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Struggle for an ideal future for Germany! Struggle for an ideal future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your mates, persuade everybody, let’s go!
Get excited concerning the future, and if you wish to make the longer term nice, if you need the longer term to be nice, it’s worthwhile 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’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 the perfect to make America nice once more. You’re the perfect. God’s blessing.
Musk: Precisely. I imply, I feel we must always combat for an thrilling, vivid 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 longer term. And the easiest way to… guarantee the longer term is sweet, you must combat for a very good future every single day, and it is going to be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, fantastic future so…
I feel this election developing in Germany is extremely necessary. I feel it might resolve your complete 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 along with it like a sequence response, persuade one good friend, speak 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 feel the folks in Germany need one thing totally different, and if you need one thing totally different, you must vote for a distinct occasion. 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, speak to folks, persuade folks, 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 might 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 folks to vote for AfD.”
And also you definitely… clearly you have got my full assist. I feel the Trump administration can be supportive. So, , I feel the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make a variety of sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, … to me, after I have 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 carried out, , getting the federal government out of individuals’s approach in an effort to get, , you will get issues carried out, and giving folks again private freedom and defending the folks from risks.
These are basic issues that, frankly, the present authorities just isn’t 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 inconceivable, 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, because of this 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 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 typically. So anyway, I feel that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every part 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.
All the pieces you’ll be able to, 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 might hear you, however I can see the keenness of the gang. 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 mentioned 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 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 exhausting 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 assist 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 by which 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 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 will “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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