Elon Musk spoke at a marketing campaign occasion for Germany’s controversial Various für Deutschland, or Various for Germany (AfD), get together 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 get together by some critics.
The looks comes forward of a German election being held on February 23, which Musk says might “resolve the whole 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 under with Musk’s speech beginning round two and a half hours in, or you may learn the complete 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 properly.
Wow, hey, everybody. I hope you may hear me properly, the audio I’m listening to from my facet is… I can’t hear you. So hopefully this, that is coming via. Please, please verify that this you may hear me. Okay. I don’t know, elevate your hand or one thing. Okay. All good. Okay, nice.
Properly, to begin with, I wished 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 already know, it’s okay to be proud to be German. It is 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 all the things. I believe we need to have distinctive cultures on this planet. We need to have people who have… we don’t need all the things to be the identical all over the place, the place it’s only one massive kind of soup, you already know, we need to have one thing the place it’s… you go to completely different nations 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 individuals.
The German persons are kind of, actually an historic 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 deal with previous guilt, and we have to transfer past that. Youngsters 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 individuals. And you already know, 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 nations 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 international elite. And you already know, after I’ve given talks at these kind of international authorities conferences, what I’ve stated is there needs to be “much less international authorities, there needs to be extra dedication by particular person nations.”
And so I very a lot hope that the AfD does properly, and that Alice Weidel does turn out to be a chancellor. I believe that will be superb for Germany, and I believe it’s essential. I hope the German individuals unite and strongly help AfD.
You’re doing the best factor, is what I’m saying.
Let’s go guys, let’s go! Battle for an ideal future for Germany! Battle for an ideal 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, in order for you the long run to be nice, you might want to make it nice, and battle 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. 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 should always battle for an thrilling, vibrant future the place individuals 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 best ways to… guarantee the long run is nice, it’s important to battle for a very good future day-after-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 might resolve the whole 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 contemplate voting for AfD after which, and simply go along with it like a sequence response, persuade one pal, speak 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 individuals in Germany need one thing completely different, and in order for you one thing completely different, it’s important to vote for a unique get together. 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, speak to individuals, persuade individuals, one vote at a time, there’s a necessity for change. It’s acquired to be executed. And this election is so vital, it’s extraordinarily vital. I don’t say it flippantly after I assume the way forward for civilization might hold 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 individuals to vote for AfD.”
And also you actually… clearly you’ve gotten my full help. 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 a whole 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 kind of, they’re widespread sense insurance policies, and similar to President Trump has widespread sense insurance policies, getting issues executed, you already know, getting the federal government out of individuals’s method as a way to get, you already know, you may get issues executed, and giving individuals again private freedom and defending the individuals from risks.
These are elementary issues that, frankly, the present authorities is just not doing. Present authorities is suppressing speech very aggressively and actually, whenever you suppress freedom of speech, it’s not it’s very tough, if not unattainable, to have a real democracy, as a result of freedom of speech is the inspiration of democracy.
Individuals can’t be anticipated to vote in an knowledgeable method if they don’t seem to be capable of know the reality. So, this is the reason it’s so vital 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 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 typically. So anyway, I believe that is I can’t emphasize sufficient, go do all the things 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.
All the pieces 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 might hear you, however I can see the passion 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 seemed 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 might 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 submit 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 pal 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 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 related 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 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 might “be the final election” if voters didn’t encourage others to register to vote.
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