Documented statements and actions by Elon Musk and his companies concerning Germany's politics, government, courts or regulators, with the official response.
Speaking by video link at the AfD's campaign launch in Halle, Musk called the party the best hope for Germany
and said There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that.
Response: Polish PM Donald Tusk said the words sounded all too familiar and ominous
; Chancellor Scholz wrote that he agreed with Tusk; Germany's ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, said 'Nobody makes chil…
Musk held a live X Spaces conversation with AfD chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, saying People really need to get behind the AfD.
When Weidel said Hitler was a communist, Musk interjected that Hitler had nationalised companies.
Response: Chancellor Olaf Scholz told an interviewer Do not feed the troll!
(NPR).
Replying to a post by German influencer Naomi Seibt, Musk wrote that President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is an anti-democratic tyrant! Shame on him.
Response: The Office of the Federal President said it had taken note of the comment but would not comment on it.
In a guest article for Welt am Sonntag, Musk called the AfD the last spark of hope for this country
and argued its portrayal as right-wing extremist was false.
Response: CDU leader Friedrich Merz called the intervention übergriffig und anmaßend
(overbearing and presumptuous) and said he could recall no comparable interference in a friendly country's election campai…
In a series of posts about the car-ramming attack on the Magdeburg Christmas market, Musk wrote in German that Scholz should resign immediately, adding in English Incompetent fool
. He also shared a post blaming the attack on mass immigration.
Response: Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote on X that Musk should not interfere in our politics
and that his platform profits from hate and incitement
(Business Insider).
Musk wrote on X: Only the AfD can save Germany.
Response: Chancellor Olaf Scholz said freedom of opinion also goes for multibillionaires
but includes saying things that aren't right and don't contain good political advice
, adding that the democratic par…
