Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Various für Deutschland, or Various 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 matters, has drawn concern and been referred to 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 might “determine your complete destiny of Europe, possibly the destiny of the world.” In the course of 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 concerning 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 complete broadcast from Alice Weidel on X beneath with Musk’s speech beginning round two and a half hours in, or you possibly can 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 effectively.
Wow, good day, everybody. I hope you possibly can hear me effectively, 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 possibly can hear me. Okay. I don’t know, elevate your hand or one thing. Okay. All good. Okay, nice.
Nicely, initially, I needed to essentially say that I’m very excited for the AfD and I feel, I feel you’re actually the most effective hope for Germany. I feel some issues that… one thing I feel that’s simply crucial is that individuals 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 pleased with German tradition, German values, and to not lose that in some form of multiculturalism that dilutes all the pieces. I feel we wish to have distinctive cultures on the earth. We wish to have those that have… we don’t need all the pieces to be the identical in every single place, the place it’s only one large form 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 ensure 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 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 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 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 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 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 form of world elite. And you understand, once I’ve given talks at these form of world authorities conferences, what I’ve stated is there needs to be “much less world authorities, there needs to be extra willpower by particular person international locations.”
And so I very a lot hope that the AfD does effectively, and that Alice Weidel does develop into a chancellor. I feel that will be superb for Germany, and I feel it’s crucial. I hope the German folks unite and strongly help AfD.
You’re doing the fitting factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Battle for an incredible future for Germany! Battle for an incredible 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 longer term nice, if you would like 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 attempt one factor, and I hope you possibly can hear me. No, you possibly can’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 most effective to make America nice once more. You’re the most effective. God’s blessing.
Musk: Precisely. I imply, I feel we should always combat for an thrilling, vibrant future the place folks might 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 nice, you need to combat for a great 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 arising in Germany is extremely vital. I feel it might determine 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 crucial 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 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 feel the folks in Germany need one thing completely different, and if you would like one thing completely different, you need to vote for a unique 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, speak to folks, persuade folks, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s received to be completed. And this election is so vital, it’s extraordinarily vital. I don’t say it frivolously once I suppose the way forward for civilization might dangle on this election.
So when one thing is so vital, it’s you really want 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 understand, I feel the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make plenty of sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you understand… to me, once I take 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 completed, you understand, getting the federal government out of individuals’s method as a way to get, you understand, you may get issues completed, and giving folks again private freedom and defending the folks from risks.
These are elementary issues that, frankly, the present authorities is just not doing. Present authorities is suppressing speech very aggressively and actually, if you suppress freedom of speech, it’s not it’s very troublesome, if not not possible, to have a real democracy, as a result of freedom of speech is the muse of democracy.
Folks can’t be anticipated to vote in an knowledgeable method if they aren’t in a position to know the reality. So, that is why it’s so vital to should 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 isn’t 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 normally. So anyway, I feel that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do all the pieces you possibly can, full blast. Put each effort you possibly can into this election, this… the destiny of the world, I feel, rests upon this election in Germany. It’s extraordinarily elementary.
All the things you possibly can, please go all out.
Weidel: Thanks, nice. All the most effective 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, 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 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 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 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 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 stated 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 towards the Jewish folks 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 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 related 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 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 could “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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