Germany’s Scholz Takes Swipe at Musk for His AfD Endorsement
- Musk posted on X that ‘only the AfD can save Germany’
- Chancellor questions billionaire Musk’s political judgment
Olaf Scholz
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz took a swipe at Elon Musk over his political judgment, escalating a spat between the German government and the world’s richest person.
Scholz, speaking to reporters in Berlin on Friday, was asked about a post Musk made on his X platform earlier the same day asserting that only the far-right AfD party “can save Germany.”