Donald Trump made the richest man in the world, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, his closest adviser. Musk’s account regularly contains posts about the internal politics of European countries: being a Republican and a conservative, Musk strongly supports the right-wing parties of Europe and aggressively criticizes their opponents. .
Musk and Germany At the end of December 2024, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved the Bundestag and scheduled early parliamentary elections for February 23, 2025. Participating in them will be the odious far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose support in society has grown noticeably over the past few years. Two days after Steinmeier’s decision, the right-wing conservative newspaper Welt am Sonntag published a laudatory article about the AfD - it was written not by a local journalist, but by Elon Musk.
In this text, Musk pathetically called the AfD the last spark of hope for the country and stated that he fully shares its position on economic, energy and migration issues. On the political plane, the AfD, according to Musk, “represents political realism,” and not extremism, as Germany’s domestic intelligence service believes. .
This statement by the American businessman caused sharp criticism among German politicians, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his main opponent in the upcoming elections, Friedrich Merz, who called Musk’s interference in the internal affairs of Germany “intrusive and pretentious.”.
German politicians consider the attacks of the billionaire and future adviser to Trump on the Social Democrats and praise of the far-right as an attempt to escalate the situation in the country on the eve of the February elections. German government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann reminded voters that Musk supports a party that has been declared “suspected of right-wing extremist aspirations” and expressed regret that the right to express one’s opinion “extends to the greatest stupidity.”.
Musk and the UK Another European country that interests Elon Musk is the UK.. The billionaire began to consistently criticize her domestic policies and fuel nationalist sentiments in British society during the unrest after the massacre in Southport in the north of England.
It happened on July 29, 2024. 17-year-old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana attacked participants at a children's dance event with a knife, killing three children (six, seven and nine years old) and seriously wounding several others. His motive was never established. Because the attacker was a minor, the police, in accordance with British law, initially did not release his name.. Because of this, rumors immediately spread in the media and social networks that he was a Muslim and a recent immigrant. All this caused a wave of far-right protests throughout the country, in some places they escalated into riots with the use of violence against the Muslim population (it later turned out that Rudakubana’s parents are from Rwanda, but he himself is a British citizen and does not practice Islam). Police arrested more than 1.2 thousand participants in those riots, more than 200 of them received prison sentences.
In December, having already received a place in the presidential administration from the newly elected Donald Trump, Musk began to move closer to the British center-right party Reform UK (formerly the Brexit Party), known for its dislike of migrants, traditional parties (Labour and Conservatives), the European Union and “cancel culture.”.
Apparently, Elon Musk's attacks on the British government on the Internet are just the beginning. The Financial Times (FT) newspaper on January 9, citing its sources, reported that Musk wants to destabilize the Labor government and achieve Starmer’s resignation before the 2029 elections. According to the publication, the businessman intends to do this with the help of Reform UK and other political movements. “He believes that Western civilization is under threat,” one of the FT’s interlocutors said about Musk.