Alice Weidel is co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, a far-right political group currently in second place in opinion polls ahead of national elections being held on Feb. 23.Pool photo by Kay Nietfeld via AFP/Getty Images

Musk hosts love-fest with far-right AfD chief on X  – POLITICO

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Elon Musk defied a chorus of international criticism and jumped into Germany’s election with both boots, telling an online audience that far-right leader Alice Weidel was “the leading candidate” to run Europe’s biggest economy. 

Unfortunately, he also got her name wrong.  

“Welcome to the conversation with Alice Weidel, who is currently the leading candidate to run Germany, I think,” Musk declared, pronouncing it incorrectly as “Veedle."