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 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 “resolve your entire 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 forms from Brussels, together with being affirmed by Weidel and the viewers in regards to the current election of Trump, who has advocated for related deregulatory and anti-immigration insurance policies.
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You possibly can see the complete broadcast from Alice Weidel on X beneath with Musk’s speech beginning round two and a half hours in, or you may 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 nicely.
Wow, whats up, everybody. I hope you may hear me nicely, the audio I’m listening to from my facet is… I can’t hear you. So hopefully this, that is coming by way of. Please, please affirm that this you may hear me. Okay. I don’t know, elevate your hand or one thing. Okay. All good. Okay, nice.
Effectively, initially, I needed to actually say that I’m very excited for the AfD and I believe, I believe you’re actually the most effective hope for Germany. I believe some issues that… one thing I believe that’s simply essential is that individuals take satisfaction in Germany, and being German, this is essential. It’s, you already know, 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 kind of multiculturalism that dilutes every thing. I believe we wish to have distinctive cultures on this planet. We wish to have those who have… we don’t need every thing to be the identical all over the place, the place it’s only one massive kind of soup, you already know, we wish to have one thing the place it’s… you go to completely 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 guarantee that it seeks the well being and well-being of the German folks.
The German individuals are kind 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, 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 in regards to the future, to protect German tradition and shield the German folks. 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 forms from Brussels, an excessive amount of management from kind of world elite. And you already know, after I’ve given talks at these kind 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 nicely, and that Alice Weidel does change into a chancellor. I believe that might be excellent for Germany, and I believe it’s essential. I hope the German folks unite and strongly assist AfD.
You’re doing the correct 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 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 would like the long run to be nice, it is advisable to make it nice, and battle 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. 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 believe we must always battle for an thrilling, brilliant future the place folks may be optimistic about what’s going to occur, the place you get up and also you look ahead to the long run. And one of the simplest ways to… guarantee the long run is sweet, you must battle for a very good future every single day, and will probably be nice, and we’ll have a really thrilling, fantastic future so…
I believe this election arising in Germany is extremely vital. I believe it may resolve your entire destiny of Europe, possibly 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 think about voting for AfD after which, and simply go along with it like a series response, persuade one pal, discuss to a different pal, 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 folks in Germany need one thing completely different, and if you would like one thing completely different, you must vote for a distinct 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 folks, persuade folks, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s obtained to be finished. And this election is so vital, it’s extraordinarily vital. I don’t say it flippantly after I suppose the way forward for civilization may grasp 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 definitely… clearly you have got my full assist. I believe the Trump administration can also be supportive. So, you already know, I believe the insurance policies that I’ve heard from AFD, they make numerous sense.
They’re actually simply, it’s, you already know… to me, after I have a look at the insurance policies, they’re kind of, they’re frequent sense insurance policies, and similar to President Trump has frequent sense insurance policies, getting issues finished, you already know, getting the federal government out of individuals’s approach as a way to get, you already know, you may get issues finished, 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, 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.
Folks can’t be anticipated to vote in an knowledgeable method if they aren’t capable of know the reality. So, that is why it’s so vital to need to 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’s not 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 typically. So anyway, I believe that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do every 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.
Every little thing you may, 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 may hear you, however I can see the keenness of the gang. And… danke schoen. And, you already know, 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 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 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 transferring 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 stated the Tesla and SpaceX head was “being falsely smeared.”
“Elon is a good pal 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 folks 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 related considerations about immigration, inhabitants collapse and the necessity for folks 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 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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