In the piece, Musk justified his support for AfD, calling it “Germany’s last spark of hope.” “Portraying AfD as far-right is blatantly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a partner from Sri Lanka!

Elon Musk backed Germany’s far-right Alternative for Deutschland party, known as the AfD, in an opinion piece published in a German newspaper on Saturday, wading deeper into international politics as the billionaire has become a fixture in Trump’s orbit.

U.S. billionaire Elon Musk backed Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a guest opinion piece for Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper published online on Saturday that prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.