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 may “determine the complete destiny of Europe, perhaps the destiny of the world.” Throughout 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 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 possibly can 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, hey, 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. Please, please affirm that this you possibly can hear me. Okay. I don’t know, increase your hand or one thing. Okay. All good. Okay, nice.
Nicely, to start with, 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 crucial is that folks take satisfaction in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, you already know, it’s okay to be proud to be German. It is 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 thing. I believe we need to have distinctive cultures on the earth. We need to have those that have… we don’t need every thing to be the identical in all places, the place it’s only one huge type of soup, you already know, we need to have one thing the place it’s… you go to totally different international locations 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 ensure 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 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 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 couple of 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 already know, there are another issues that I believe can 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 world elite. And you already know, after I’ve given talks at these type of world authorities conferences, what I’ve stated is there must be “much less world 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 crucial. I hope the German individuals unite and strongly help AfD.
You’re doing the suitable factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Battle for an important future for Germany! Battle for an important future for Germany! Go go go, persuade your folks, persuade everybody, let’s go!
Get excited in regards to the future, and if you wish to make the longer term nice, in order for you the longer term to be nice, you might want to make it nice, and struggle 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 believe 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 believe we must always struggle for an thrilling, brilliant future the place individuals could be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you stay up for the longer term. And one of the simplest ways to… guarantee the longer term is sweet, you need to struggle for future daily, and will probably be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, fantastic future so…
I believe this election arising in Germany is extremely essential. 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 crucial 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 in order for you one thing totally different, you need to vote for a special 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, discuss to individuals, persuade individuals, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s acquired to be finished. And this election is so essential, it’s extraordinarily essential. I don’t say it calmly after I suppose the way forward for civilization may hold on this election.
So when one thing is so essential, 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’ve gotten my full help. I believe the Trump administration can be supportive. So, you already know, I believe the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make quite a lot of sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you already know… to me, after I take a look at the insurance policies, they’re type of, they’re widespread sense insurance policies, and identical to President Trump has widespread sense insurance policies, getting issues finished, you already know, getting the federal government out of individuals’s approach so that you could get, you already know, you may get issues finished, and giving individuals again private freedom and defending the individuals from risks.
These are elementary issues that, frankly, the present authorities will not be 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 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, for this reason it’s so essential to need to 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 on the whole. So anyway, I believe that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every thing you possibly can, full blast. Put each effort you possibly can into this election, this… the destiny of the world, I believe, rests upon this election in Germany. It’s extraordinarily elementary.
Every little thing you possibly can, 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 keenness of the gang. And… danke schoen. And, you already know, 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 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 could 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 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 buddy of Israel,” Netanyahu wrote on X following the occasion. “He visited Israel after the October 7 bloodbath during 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 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 issues about immigration, inhabitants collapse and the necessity for individuals 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 could “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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