Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Various für Deutschland, or Various for Germany (AfD), social gathering 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 social gathering by some critics.
The looks comes forward of a German election being held on February 23, which Musk says might “determine all the destiny of Europe, perhaps the destiny of the world.” Through 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 may 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, howdy, 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 means of. 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.
Effectively, initially, I needed to essentially say that I’m very excited for the AfD and I feel, I feel you’re actually one of the best hope for Germany. I feel some issues that… one thing I feel that’s simply crucial is that individuals take pleasure in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, you understand, 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 little thing. I feel we need to have distinctive cultures on the planet. We need to have folks that have… we don’t need every little thing to be the identical all over the place, 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 ensure 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 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 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 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 individuals. 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 type of world elite. And you understand, once I’ve given talks at these type 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 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 may be excellent for Germany, and I feel 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 a fantastic future for Germany! Battle for a fantastic 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’d like the longer term to be nice, it’s good to make it nice, and battle 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 possibly can hear me. No, you possibly can’t?
Musk: No, I feel I can hear you now.
Weidel: Okay, sure, good. Complete 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 feel we must always battle for an thrilling, shiny future the place individuals might be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you sit up for the longer term. And one of the best ways to… guarantee the longer term is sweet, you need to battle for a superb future each day, and will probably be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, great future so…
I feel this election arising in Germany is extremely vital. I feel it might determine all the 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 series response, persuade one good friend, discuss 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 individuals in Germany need one thing totally different, and if you’d like one thing totally different, you need to vote for a distinct social gathering. 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 bought to be executed. And this election is so vital, it’s extraordinarily vital. I don’t say it calmly once I suppose the way forward for civilization might cling on this election.
So when one thing is so vital, 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 my full help. I feel the Trump administration can 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 type of, they’re frequent sense insurance policies, and similar to President Trump has frequent sense insurance policies, getting issues executed, you understand, getting the federal government out of individuals’s method so as to get, you understand, you will get issues executed, and giving individuals again private freedom and defending the individuals from risks.
These are elementary issues that, frankly, the present authorities isn’t doing. Present authorities is suppressing speech very aggressively and actually, once you suppress freedom of speech, it’s not it’s very tough, if not not possible, 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, because of this it’s so vital 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 delicate 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 individuals of Germany and have freedom of speech and have much less authorities oppression usually. So anyway, I feel that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every little thing 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.
Every part 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 might hear you, however I can see the passion of the gang. And… danke schoen. And, you understand, go, go, go, battle, battle, battle.
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 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 will be “one other nail within the coffin.”
“It was astonishing how insanely arduous 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 help 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 during which 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 related 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 subjects.
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 will “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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