Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Various für Deutschland, or Various 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 referred to 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 “determine the whole destiny of Europe, perhaps the destiny of the world.” In the course of the speech, he additionally spoke about preserving German tradition and the elimination of forms 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 may 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 may 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 way of. Please, please verify that this you may hear me. Okay. I don’t know, increase 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 believe, I believe you’re actually the very best hope for Germany. I believe some issues that… one thing I believe that’s simply crucial is that folks take satisfaction 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 pleased with German tradition, German values, and to not lose that in some type of multiculturalism that dilutes every little thing. I believe 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 in all places, the place it’s only one massive type of soup, you understand, we wish to have one thing the place it’s… you go to completely 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 be sure that it seeks the well being and well-being of the German individuals.
The German persons are type 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 believe 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, perhaps 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 defend the German individuals. And you understand, there are another issues that I believe could be very useful too, which is that, I believe you need extra self-determination for Germany and for the international locations in Europe, and fewer from Brussels.
That’s my opinion. I believe there’s an excessive amount of forms from Brussels, an excessive amount of management from type of international elite. And you understand, after I’ve given talks at these type of international authorities conferences, what I’ve mentioned is there needs to be “much less international authorities, there needs to be extra dedication by particular person international locations.”
And so I very a lot hope that the AfD does properly, and that Alice Weidel does grow to be a chancellor. I believe that might be excellent for Germany, and I believe it’s crucial. I hope the German individuals unite and strongly assist AfD.
You’re doing the fitting factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Battle for an awesome future for Germany! Battle for an awesome future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your pals, persuade everybody, let’s go!
Get excited concerning the future, and if you wish to make the long run nice, if you need the long run to be nice, you have to 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 may hear me. No, you may’t?
Musk: No, I believe I can hear you now.
Weidel: Okay, sure, good. Complete viewers, we want you, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, all the very best to make America nice once more. You’re the very best. God’s blessing.
Musk: Precisely. I imply, I believe we should always struggle for an thrilling, brilliant future the place individuals might 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 nice, you must struggle for future daily, and it is going to be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, fantastic future so…
I believe this election arising in Germany is extremely necessary. I believe it might determine the whole 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, 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 completely different?”
And I believe the individuals in Germany need one thing completely different, and if you need one thing completely different, you must vote for a unique occasion. 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, speak to individuals, persuade individuals, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s obtained to be finished. 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 hold 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 may have my full assist. I believe the Trump administration can be supportive. So, you understand, I believe the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make numerous sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you understand… to me, after I have a look at the insurance policies, they’re type of, they’re frequent sense insurance policies, and similar to President Trump has frequent sense insurance policies, getting issues finished, you understand, getting the federal government out of individuals’s method so to get, you understand, you will get issues finished, and giving individuals again private freedom and defending the individuals from risks.
These are elementary issues that, frankly, the present authorities shouldn’t be doing. Present authorities is suppressing speech very aggressively and actually, while you suppress freedom of speech, it’s not it’s very tough, if not unimaginable, to have a real democracy, as a result of freedom of speech is the muse of democracy.
Individuals 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 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 gentle 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 basically. So anyway, I believe that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every little thing you may, full blast. Put each effort you may into this election, this… the destiny of the world, I believe, rests upon this election in Germany. It’s extraordinarily elementary.
All the pieces you may, please go all out.
Weidel: Thanks, nice. All the very 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, you understand, 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 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 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 shifting my hand from my coronary heart to the viewers,” Musk wrote in an extra publish 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 good 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 individuals 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 individuals 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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