X ceo Elon Musk’s supposed Nazi salute has been a dumb distraction this week. Gesturing that his heart goes out to the crowd, he put his hand over his heart and then lifted it out straight. The media snapped a photo, and it has become one of the left’s number one talking points.

Since then, X has been full of photos of celebrities and politicians holding their arms out at the same angle. I think it’s ridiculous: an easily debunked accusation and a reason why people no longer believe it when someone is labeled a “Nazi.”

But Musk has also become the greatest English-language champion for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party routinely labeled “neo-Nazi.” Musk hosted a discussion on X with AfD coleader Alice Weidel. He may have been instrumental in securing an invite for the AfD’s other coleader, Tino Chrupalla, to Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Is Elon Musk promoting a Nazi party?

Musk says no. Weidel is a lesbian with a Sri Lankan “wife.” How could she be a Nazi?

I found little in their discussion to disagree with. Weidel came across as a sensible, sober politician in touch with the dangers of mass migration and the problems of modern Germany. I’ve probably said more controversial things on our Trumpet World show than she said with Musk. Her most controversial point was that Nazism—National Socialism—can also be regarded as coming from the far left, as it embraces state ownership of the means of production. But I agree with her, and it is a point we’ve made before.

More controversial was her interview with American Conservative.

The United States, she said, is “a strange empire: an empire that rules the world from Monday to Wednesday but doesn’t want to do so again from Thursday to Sunday.” Germany, she said, was America’s “slave,” and “slaves don’t fight.”

Here she hints at the AfD’s real feelings toward America: The U.S. dominates the world without paying much attention. Germany and the rest of Europe are not beneficiaries of America’s protection; they are U.S. vassals.

All that will change if Germany arms itself, she warned. “Therefore, when President Donald Trump demands that Germany must take responsibility for its own security in the future, he should also be clear about the full consequences,” she said. “That we will listen kindly to his concerns about Nord Stream and our energy supply, but that we will make our own decisions and he must accept them, whether he likes them or not.”

It is understandable that Trump wants Germany to shoulder some of the costs of defending the West. But if Germany does it by becoming a strong military power again, Weidel is right: It will no longer listen to the U.S.

The article gives a glimpse of something that is integral to the AfD—and common in Germany: bitterness against the U.S.

The AfD has gone through a transformation since November. Prior to the election, it barely spoke about Donald Trump. It smarted under his criticism of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, his complaints that Germans weren’t paying their fair share and his threats of tariffs. But when Trump won, it saw a potential ally. An outsider, condemned by the elites as a Nazi, really could rise to power. So the AfD jumped onboard the Trump train.

Or some of them did. In Eastern Germany, resentment of America is stronger than in the West, so there they’ve been quieter.

But the AfD’s views of German history, especially World War ii, would shock most Americans.

In 2017, then AfD leader Alexander Gauland said, “If the French are rightly proud of their emperor and the Britons of Nelson and Churchill, we have the right to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars.”

“German history is handled as rotten and made to look ridiculous.” He said German attempts to commemorate and apologize for World War ii are a “stupid coping policy” and called Germany’s Holocaust memorial “a monument of shame in the heart of its capital.” The nation needs a “180-degree reversal on the politics of remembrance.” “The AfD is the last revolutionary, the last peaceful chance for our fatherland,” he said, and the crowd chanted, “Deutschland! Deutschland!”

In 2023, AfD leader Tino Chrupalla said, “I find it fundamentally problematic to always link commemoration with the question of guilt.”

“Historical guilt should no longer determine the way we act,” he said. Was his invitation to the inauguration an endorsement of his view that Germany should act completely unrestrained by its past?

But to really see the bitterness against America, you need to look at AfD literature. Compact is a magazine by and for AfD supporters. It presents a view of World War ii in which Germany is the victim of America. Its special editions have included:

• “Lost Homeland,” describing the “unspeakable suffering” of the 14 million Germans expelled from Eastern Europe after the war and the “martyrdom they had to endure”
• “Crimes Against Germans,” on how Germany was victimized during World War ii
• “Dresden 1945: The Dead, the Perpetrators and the Trivializers,” on the “Anglo-American bombing terror” and the “mass murderer” Winston Churchill
• “The Death Camps of the Americans,” which accuses Gen. Dwight Eisenhower of carrying out the mass execution of German prisoners of war in 1945

“The German soldiers fought mostly chivalrously and honorably in the Second World War,” stated Compact. There were only a small number of criminals, and “offenses were usually severely punished by the military justice system.”

They have a radically revisionist history of World War ii: Hitler wasn’t necessarily good. But Churchill and Roosevelt were no better. Germany unfairly landed with the blame for a war caused by clashing imperialists.

Even now, according to Compact, Germany is the victim of a vast American conspiracy. Hitler’s agreement with Stalin to divide Eastern Europe between them is held up as an example to be copied. Germany needs to ally with Russia to escape America’s trap.

Since November, their email newsletters are suddenly full of praise for Trump—a jarring change from their previous denouncement of all forms of American power.

The AfD has risen fast in Germany. It is the number two political party, with the support of over 20 percent. Pollsters fear its true level of support could be even higher, as voters are reluctant to admit to supporting a stigmatized party. Another poll found Weidel was the most popular candidate for German chancellor.

I get the support. Few German parties will even talk about the real problems caused by mass migration from Muslim countries. Just this week, an Afghan immigrant who should have already been deported went to a park to stab as many little kids as he could reach. Those who want mass migration ended and more deportations are right.

The mainstream Christian Democratic Union (cdu) has started talking more about the problems of migration. But Angela Merkel, who let all these migrants in, was from the cdu. I don’t blame Germans for not trusting that party.

But the result is the rise of party the hates the U.S. and thinks the Nazis weren’t so bad. When the mainstream media call the AfD Nazis, of course Elon Musk doesn’t listen. He has seen firsthand how ridiculous their accusations can be. That’s the danger with crying wolf—when the wolf really does show up, no one believes you.

I even understand some of the AfD’s criticism of America. I’m not American—I can find plenty about America society and foreign policy to criticize. In fact, God reveals in the Bible that He has some things He is very angry with America for. But they are not the same as what stirs the AfD’s resentment. In many ways, America has been a force for good. It protected the free world from the Soviet Union. Since the ussr fell, the U.S. has been the world’s number one superpower. Most other powers in history would have used that position to become a global tyrant. America has not. Some will disagree—but when America falls, they’ll see what a real global tyrant looks like.

But this bitterness against America goes much further than the AfD. Many on the left embrace more socialist parties—but share the AfD’s resentment.

Bible prophecy forecast this growing bitterness. Jeremiah 1 refers to the coming German-led European superpower as a boiling pot (verses 13-15).

“Beneath the surface, that nation is full of simmering dissatisfaction with the current world order,” wrote Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry. “Germans are angry at the U.S., and especially furious with President Trump. The imperialistic ambition that prompted Germany to start both world wars is alive and well. It is ‘seething’!”

Look at Germany’s bitterness toward the U.S. and it’s clear the pot is ready to boil over.

The same prophecies warn that America is completely oblivious. It regards Germany as its lover—someone who will stand by it no matter what, because they share the same values, outlook and priorities. “All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy …,” God reveals in Jeremiah 30:14.

So yes, Elon Musk is supporting Nazis—not maliciously, not because he is a Nazi, but because he is negligent.

Mr. Flurry forecast Trump’s return to the White House. For even longer, he has forecast the rise of the far right in Germany. All of this is based on prophecies in your Bible.

Those same Bible prophecies are critical of America—not for being a global tyrant, but for spreading sin all over the world. America’s culture—its music, movies and art—is degenerate in so many ways. It pushes perversion on countries around the world in the form of lgbtq initiatives. America’s courts insisting that pornography is free speech and its government refusing to deal with the problem has caused an explosion in pornography use. America is destroying families the world over.

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