Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics

The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that has prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.

The commentary piece in German was launched online on Saturday ahead of being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, which also owns the US politics news site Politico.

Musk uses populist and personal language to try to deny AfD’s extremist bent and the piece expands on his post on the social media platform X that he owns, on which he last week claimed that “only the AfD can save Germany”.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•5 days ago

    I think it was more that he didn’t have the means. Propaganda was much harder before the Internet and social media.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•5 days ago

      That’s kind of where I was going with my comment. 80 years ago, what these billionaires are doing was simply not possible. I’m not saying Hitler is not worse than Musk. Hitler could only dream about having this much power.