Co-President Elon Musk Flexes Power – Europe In Chaos As Tesla Billionaire Having Fun Interfering In Politics

Co-President Elon Musk Flexes Power – Europe In Chaos As Tesla Billionaire Having Fun Interfering In Politics


January 8th, 2025 by financetwitter



Donald Trump has not officially taken office until January 20. Yet, his most trusted lieutenant, Elon Musk, has already started flexing power as if he is the POTUS. And if President-Elect Trump’s policymaking process requires input from the Tesla billionaire, there’s a long list of countries that should be extremely worried over the next four years, but China, Russia or North Korea is not one of them.

The world’s richest man is throwing grenades into Europe’s political mainstream over issues ranging from immigration to free speech, even mocking and insulting certain leaders and publicly backing opposition much to the displeasure of existing governments. Using his social media X (formerly Twitter), Musk has done so much damage that many European leaders are worried about their relations with Trump.

In Germany, ahead of an election after Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses no-confidence vote in Dec 2024, the Tesla CEO has caused outrage after publicly backing the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party. Praising the AfD’s low-tax and anti-immigration policies, he called the party the country’s “last spark of hope” – sparking concern that Trump’s best buddy was interfering in German politics.


The AfD’s policies – limiting immigration, cutting taxes, criticising Islam, opposing EU asylum rules and even restoring trade with Russia – fit nicely into Trump’s policies. It’s both ironic and hilarious that the U.S. is now openly interfering and influencing in the upcoming elections of its allies in Europe, after previously accused China and Russia of doing the same to the U.S. elections.

Strategists and politicians in Germany are now panicking that Musk’s views, including insulting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz an “incompetent fool” and urged him to resign, could end up influencing a general election this February. Armed with 211 million followers on X, Musk will be hosting a live-stream conversation on the platform on Thursday with the leader of the AfD, which could give advantage to the party.

In the United Kingdom, Musk has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of being complicit in rape, using social media X to reveal a scandal over historic child sex abuse in England. Not only the billionaire has called for Starmer’s minister, Jess Philips, to be imprisoned, calling her “pure evil” and a “wicked creature”, but also has said PM Starmer should be in prison as well.


Elon Musk has even called on King Charles III to dissolve parliament and order new elections in Britain after Labour party rejected a call for an inquiry into child grooming. Of course, the British Prime Minister was furious after 53-year-old Musk suggested Mr Starmer had failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions from 2008 to 2013.

A 2014 inquiry found at least 1,400 children (mostly white girls) were subjected to sexual exploitation in Rotherham, northern England, between 1997 and 2013. Starmer was accused of turning a blind eye to gangs made up mostly of Muslim men of Pakistani heritage who groomed and raped the young girls. Pathetically, British police did not do their job for fear of being accused of racism if they acted against the men from minority backgrounds.

Unable to retaliate, most likely fearing a backlash from Donald Trump himself, the British PM could only offer a lame response – “Those who are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims, they’re interested in themselves.” That could embolden Musk to be more aggressive in destabilizing the British government by providing fresh ammunition to opponents on the political right.


Heck, the world’s richest man was enjoying his newly found power so much that he has even launched a poll on his X platform asking his followers and other users if Americans “should liberate” the British from their “tyrannical government”. He was essentially suggesting an invasion of the Great Britain. Interestingly, many users agreed that the U.K. could become a U.S. state.

Starmer’s Labour Party is one of the few left-of-centre governments remaining in Europe, with recent elections witnessing seismic shifts to the right as Trump returns to power, including in Italy, Slovakia and the Netherlands. Germany’s Social Democrats may be the next to fall as the weak and incompetent Chancellor Olaf Scholz widely expected to go down in defeat in the upcoming election next month (February).

Musk’s attacks were so damaging that even French President Emmanuel Macron joins the bandwagon, slamming Musk for “directly intervening” in elections in Europe. But Macron is no longer influential after his own government’s Prime Minister Michel Barnier collapsed in a historical no-confidence vote. The French president is facing pressure to resign as public debt ballooned to €3.2 trillion from €2 trillion in just 7 years.


Other EU leaders want to see regulators impose fines and other legal sanctions on Musk for improperly using his social media platform, which could backfire if Trump decides to weaponize tariffs to punish the American’s own allies. Between Europe and Musk, who had spent more than US$250 million last year to boost the Trump campaign, it’s not rocket science as to who Trump will back.

Musk’s intervention, which clearly has Trump’s endorsement, may be to coerce unfriendly European governments into backing off from tougher legislation that could hurt American tech companies in-line with Trump’s MAGA. The U.K., for example, has just brought in a new digital regulations act with strengthened oversight of big tech companies and their business models.

In Canada, despite having resigned as prime minister, Justin Trudeau fails to escape Musk’s attack. The U.S. co-president mocked Trudeau an “insufferable fool”. This came after Trudeau tried to bootlick Trump when he scrambled to visit the President-Elect at Trump’s Florida estate Mar-a-Lago over dinner to discuss about fentanyl, illegal immigration, and trade, only to be insulted.


Trudeau had travelled to West Palm Beach as Canada seeks to head off the Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods. Canada is one of America’s largest trading partners and it sends about 75% of its total exports to the United States. But clearly the PM has done a lousy job sucking up to the new Commander-in-Chief, who mocked Justin Trudeau as the “Governor” of the “Great State of Canada”.

Trolling and insulting the Canadian leader, Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social – “It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada. I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all!”

The drama started when Trump warned that if Canada cannot fix the border issues and trade deficit, he will slap a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods on day one when he returns to the Oval Office. Trudeau then told Trump he cannot levy the tariff because it would kill the Canadian economy completely, to which Trump responded – “So your country can’t survive unless it’s ripping off the U.S. to the tune of US$100 billion?”


If Canada can’t even survive with a 25% tariff, Trump suggested that the country could become the 51st state of USA to avoid the tax, with Trudeau serving as its governor. Characterizing the U.S.-Canada trade deficit as a form of subsidy, Trump has similarly said Americans too have been subsidizing Mexico to the tune of US$300 billion. Therefore, imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico would make the U.S. “rich”.

Even though European leaders have slammed Musk, many believe the SpaceX and Tesla big boss isn’t the problem. Rather, legacy media are the problem for sweeping under the carpet unpopular issues such as illegal migrants and radical Islamic terrorism. Now that Trump is back, Musk’s hostility provides the clearest sign of how Trump may treat Europe once he returns to the White House.