Elon Musk Is Getting Torched For Equating Far-Right German Party To Obama's

Musk was roasted on his own social media platform by a political scientist, a fellow billionaire and many others.

Elon Musk is getting cooked on social media for equating the policies of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party to the U.S. Democratic Party at the start of Barack Obama’s presidency, after Musk recently pointed to the AfD as Germany’s only hope.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) had told CNN in an interview Friday that the AfD “is essentially the neo-Nazi party in Germany” and has “dangerous ideas about ridding Germany of anyone who is not naturally born in that country.”

“What a huge liar,” Musk wrote on his social media platform, X, in response that day. “The AfD policies are identical to those of the US Democratic Party when Obama took office! I don’t think there is a single difference.”

The resulting flurry of dunks included a particularly damning one from fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, who apparently asked X’s artificial intelligence chatbot to say which U.S. political party most closely resembles the AfD.

“It’s literally the reason I keep this app,” Cuban wrote before sharing the bot’s purported answer, which included this line: “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) most closely resembles the **Republican Party** in the United States, particularly in its current, more right-wing to far-right incarnation.”