Elon Musk is expanding his power, especially in the USA after Donald Trump’s election victory – and he also looks over the Atlantic. The richest man in the world deals with German politics.
He likes to move through German politicians from the SPD and the Greens. Robert Habeck also became a target. On his platform X, Musk attacked the Greens’ Minister of Economic Affairs and Chancellor’s candidates with obscene words. “Wow, what kind of tail this type is,” he wrote about Habeck (to choose an almost harmless translation of Musk’s wording). Once again, the billionaire is working on top German politicians. This tells a lot about his agenda, which he also pursues beyond the United States.
With a word triggered Robert Habeck Elon Musk
Musk reacts to a contribution by the right -wing extremist German influencer Naomi Seibt. The 25-year-old lives in the USA and spreads right narratives on the Internet. Almost 400,000 people follow her; They call the media the “German Musk whisperess”. The billionaire has previously responded to her contributions. Apparently the 53-year-old is very interested in what goes wrong from the perspective of rights in Germany.
In the recent case, it was about a election campaign video of the Greens, in which Habeck comments on pictures of Musk and Trump: “Trump is sitting with the billionaires, I want to commit to people.” He also demands: “We face the tech oligarch and we fight for our democracy and real freedom of expression.”
Habeck, it writes, made “more than 800 advertisements about hate speech against normal citizens”. In fact, this number is correct. The Federal Government published it on a small request from some AfD MPs last summer. It is about insults or threats. The keyword freedom of expression affects Seibt and in particular Musk a nerve. The tech billionaire repeatedly emphasizes how important the freedom of expression is on the platform X he bought. This also includes that right content is hardly moderated. And certainly not insults of the owner towards foreign politicians.
Musk interferes in the election campaign
Musk has repeatedly worked on X of top German politicians. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a “fool”, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier an “anti-democratic tyrant”. In the German election campaign, the tech billionaire from distant America plays an active role-and has a clear strategy: he appreciates politicians from the SPD and the Greens that he praises the AfD in his posts.
Already in autumn 2023 he shared a post that advertised the AfD and criticized German refugee policy. A guest contribution by Musk in the “Welt am Sonntag” caused great sensation in which he called for the election of the AfD. Top candidate Alice Weidel invited Musk to an interview on X, and he was also involved in the AfD campaign start.
Sources: Elon Musk on X, Naomi Seibt on X, German Bundestag
