Elon Musk Endorses Germany's Far-Right Party: 'Only The AFD Can Save Germany'
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The controversial billionaire and increasingly close confidante of President-elect Donald Trump is now sticking his head into Germany's elections.
Elon Musk, already set to join the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump as an outside adviser, is now also sticking his head into Germany’s upcoming elections. Musk endorsed the country’s far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), on social media Friday.
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk wrote on X, the platform he acquired in 2022.
Musk made that comment in response to a video from far-right activist Naomi Seibt, in which she slammed Friedrich Merz, who leads the Christian Democratic Union of Germany party (CDU) and is reportedly leading in the polls to become Germany’s next chancellor.
Seibt claimed in her post that Merz “is horrified by the idea that Germany should follow Elon Musk’s and [Argentinian President] Javier Milei’s example” of reforming the country with drastic public spending cuts.
Musk has become a close confidante of Trump’s, who previously said he would name him co-director of a new federal advisory group, the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE), that will purportedly only aim to slash supposedly wasteful government spending.
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