{"id":959,"date":"2025-01-26T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2025-01-26T17:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:25:47","slug":"elon-musk-tells-germans-to-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/elon-musk-tells-germans-to-be-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tells Germans to be \u2018proud\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The billionaire has told supporters of the right-wing AfD to reject their \u201cguilt\u201d over the past<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has made a surprise address at an Alternative for Germany (AfD) campaign event, telling supporters of the right-wing party that Germans should not \u201cfocus on past guilt.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The AfD kicked off its election campaign with a rally in the city of Halle on Saturday, where party leader Alice Weidel promised to deliver hardline anti-immigration policies and end Berlin\u2019s military and financial aid to Kiev.<\/p>\n

However, before Weidel took the stage, Musk addressed the 4,500-strong crowd by video link, urging them to reject multiculturalism and to \u201cbe proud of German culture [and] German values.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cChildren should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents,\u201d<\/em> he said, in an apparent reference to Germany’s Nazi past. \u201cThere is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

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Musk threw his support behind the AfD in December, calling the right-wingers the only party capable of \u201csaving Germany\u201d<\/em> and praising its anti-immigration stance, while calling Chancellor Olaf Scholz an \u201cincompetent fool.\u201d<\/em> The SpaceX CEO hosted a livestream with Weidel earlier this month on his X platform, reiterating that \u201conly AfD can save Germany.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The tech tycoon drew controversy last week, however, when he performed what his critics said was a Nazi salute while addressing supporters of US President Donald Trump in Washington DC. Scholz responded by declaring that freedom of speech in Germany does not extend to \u201csupporting extreme-right positions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

After Musk\u2019s address, Weidel called on her supporters to \u201cMake Germany Great Again,\u201d<\/em> a nod to Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d<\/em> campaign slogan.<\/p>\n

Germans go to the polls to choose a new government on February 23. The AfD is currently polling at around 20%, ahead of Scholz\u2019s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) at 17%, but behind the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at 30%. If the AfD were to exceed expectations and emerge as the largest party, Weidel is unlikely to become chancellor, as all of Germany\u2019s mainstream parties have ruled out entering a coalition with the AfD.<\/p>\n

However, CDU leader Friedrich Merz \u2013 who is widely expected to become chancellor \u2013 said on Friday that his party would introduce tough anti-immigration laws, even if it has to count on the AfD to pass them. Weidel hailed this announcement as \u201cgood news for our country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The billionaire has told supporters of the right-wing AfD to reject their \u201cguilt\u201d over the past Tech billionaire Elon Musk has made a surprise address at an Alternative for Germany (AfD) campaign event, telling supporters of the right-wing party that Germans should not \u201cfocus on past guilt.\u201d The AfD kicked off its election campaign with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}