Elon Musk, billionaire entrepreneur and increasingly close ally to President-elect Donald Trump, endorsed Germany's far right political party in a series of recent posts, following a deadly Christmas market attack there Friday evening.
A driver rammed into a crowd Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people and leaving more than 200 injured, according to officials.

Musk has become increasingly influential in American politics, seen as having Trump's ear and set to co-lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency. He is now wading into Germany's election campaign, calling on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to resign and throwing his support behind the populist anti-immigration AfD.

"Scholz should resign immediately," Musk posted on X, adding: "Incompetent fool."
"The traditional political parties in Germany have utterly failed the people," he wrote in another post. "AfD is the only hope for Germany"