The AfD won a shock election in Germany. Elon Musk was thrilled
Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesElon MuskThe AfD won a shock election in Germany. It was one of at least a dozen posts the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made about the AfD following the result.The AfD reciprocated Musk’s praise, with the party’s Saxony-Anhalt leader, Ulrich Siegmund, thanking the tech mogul for his support. His views on immigration, politics and race, which he expresses relentlessly on X, have over the years become indistinguishable from many AfD policies.
- ▪Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesElon MuskThe AfD won a shock election in Germany.
- ▪It was one of at least a dozen posts the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made about the AfD following the result.The AfD reciprocated Musk’s praise, with the party’s Saxony-Anhalt leader, Ulrich Siegmund, thanking the tech mogul for his support.
- ▪His views on immigration, politics and race, which he expresses relentlessly on X, have over the years become indistinguishable from many AfD policies.
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Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesElon MuskThe AfD won a shock election in Germany. Elon Musk was thrilledThe billionaire and the party have developed a symbiotic relationship to spread their far-right views both in Germany and the USNick Robins-EarlySun 13 Sep 2026 02.00 EDTLast modified on Sun 13 Sep 2026 02.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party rattled European politics this week after a convincing victory in a German state election, which placed it only a few seats away from forming the country’s first state-level far right government since the second world war.Elon Musk was thrilled.“Gut gemacht!” Musk posted on X a week ago, using the German phrase for “well done” as he…
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