Elon Musk is being roasted on social media for equating the policies of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party with the US Democratic Party at the start of Barack Obama’s presidency, after Musk recently be for the AfD as Germany’s only hope.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) did told CNN in an interview on Friday that the AfD is “essentially the neo-Nazi party in Germany” and has “dangerous ideas about ridding Germany of anyone who was not naturally born in that country.”
“What a huge liar,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X, in response that day. “The AfD policy is identical to that of the American Democratic Party when Obama took office! I don’t think there is any difference.”
The resulting wave of dunks included a particularly scathing one from fellow billionaire Mark Cuban, who apparently asked X’s artificial intelligence chatbot to say which US political party is most similar to the AfD.
“It’s literally the reason I keep this app,” Cuban says wrote before sharing the bot’s alleged response, which included the following sentence: “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is most similar to the **Republican Party** in the United States, especially in its current, more right-wing to far-right incarnation . ”
In September, the AfD became the first far-right party to win state elections in Germany since World War II. The leader in Thuringia, Björn Höcke, was too convicted for the second time in July for knowingly using a Nazi slogan at a political event.
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The American political scientist and author Ian Beerder replied to Musk on X, saying that equating the AfD with the Obama-era Democrats “is quite a choice.” He added that the far-right party is “much more ‘Germany first’” when it comes to issues including climate change and immigration.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a member of the Social Democratic Party, recently addressed Musk saying that “only the AfD can save Germany” by stating that freedom of speech allows multi-billionaires like him “to say things that are not true” , according to Bloomberg.
Scholz had announced in November that he had fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the head of the Free Democratic Party, leading to the collapse of his three-party governing coalition. He then lost a confidence vote on Monday, leading to new elections next year.
The AfD does currently in voting behind the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. Musk’s support for the AfD came mainly after he helped Donald Trump regain the White House in this year’s US elections.
Meanwhile, he continues to be roasted on his own platform for Friday’s mind-boggling comparison.
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