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 matters, 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 may “determine the complete destiny of Europe, perhaps the destiny of the world.” Through 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 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 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 effectively.
Wow, hi there, everybody. I hope you may 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 means 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, initially, I needed to essentially say that I’m very excited for the AfD and I believe, I believe you’re actually one of the best hope for Germany. I believe some issues that… one thing I believe that’s simply essential 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 essential precept.
It’s good to be pleased with German tradition, German values, and to not lose that in some type of multiculturalism that dilutes the whole lot. I believe we need to have distinctive cultures on the planet. We need to have those that have… we don’t need the whole lot to be the identical in all places, the place it’s only one massive type of soup, you understand, we need to have one thing the place it’s… you go to totally different international locations 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 be sure that it seeks the well being and well-being of the German individuals.
The German individuals 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 concentrate on previous guilt, and we have to transfer past that. Kids 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 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 shield 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 paperwork 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 stated is there must be “much less international authorities, there must 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 believe that might be superb for Germany, and I believe it’s essential. I hope the German individuals unite and strongly help AfD.
You’re doing the appropriate factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Combat for an important future for Germany! Combat for an important future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your mates, 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, that you must make it nice, and combat for the long run to be nice. That’s the way it turns into nice.
Weidel: Let me attempt 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. Total 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 believe we must always combat for an thrilling, vivid future the place individuals might be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you look ahead to the long run. And the easiest way to… guarantee the long run is nice, you need to combat for a very good future each day, and will probably be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, great future so…
I believe this election developing in Germany is extremely necessary. I believe it may 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 essential to speak to your family and friends and persuade them to contemplate voting for AfD after which, and simply go together with it like a series response, persuade one buddy, discuss to a different buddy, and say “Hey guys, would you like extra of the final ten years, or would you like one thing totally different?”
And I believe the individuals in Germany need one thing totally different, and if you’d like one thing totally different, you need to 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, discuss to individuals, persuade individuals, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s acquired to be accomplished. 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 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 individuals to vote for AfD.”
And also you actually… clearly you might have my full help. I believe the Trump administration can also 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 accomplished, you understand, getting the federal government out of individuals’s means so to get, you understand, you will get issues accomplished, and giving individuals again private freedom and defending the individuals from risks.
These are elementary 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 muse of democracy.
Individuals can’t be anticipated to vote in an knowledgeable method if they aren’t capable of 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 method. It’s not a democratic method.
So there must be… to revive freedom to the individuals of Germany and have freedom of speech and have much less authorities oppression typically. So anyway, I believe that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do the whole lot 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.
Every thing you may, 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 gang. 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 gave the impression 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 known 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 submit 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 buddy 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 individuals 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 individuals to have extra youngsters, 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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