Tesla boss Elon Musk has added German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the list of politicians he has insulted in Europe. He also announced a plan to speak to the leader of the country's far-right AfD.

(…) Plans for online Musk-Weidel meeting

The spokesman for the leader of the AfD, Alice Weidel, said concrete plans were underway for an online meeting between her and Musk.

That came after Musk himself suggested a meeting between the two via X’s Spaces chat feature. “Wait until Alice and I do an X Spaces conversation. They will lose their minds,” he posted. (…)

“Elon Musk is equipped with billions and unbridled communication power,” Habeck wrote on X. “His call for the AfD is systematic: He wants to weaken Europe. Power must be limited: no business model must destroy our democracy. Europe must now use its power consistently.”

Concerns are also growing in the UK as Musk takes an increasingly close interest in Britain’s political scene, aligning himself with hard-right lawmaker Nigel Farage.

Musk has busied himself with taking aim at the UK’s center-left Labour government, launching a series of blistering comments against British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

  • muelltonne@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    You know that “Germany” is not one person doing stuff, right? And that the current government is different from the one when the Tesla plant was approved and that that was also in big part done by one of the federal states? And that that was long before Musk bought Twitter and fryed his brain?

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      4 days ago

      Keep making excuses. I don’t see Germany returning the government. And this who “it’s not one person” argument about countries is idiotic. By that metric you’re not allowed to criticize a country and it’s government ever