The world’s richest person has heaped praise on the Alternative for Deutschland party in recent weeks ahead of the country’s upcoming election.

After facing backlash for gestures at Trump’s inauguration event and attempts to make Nazi-related puns on X, Elon Musk told supporters of Germany’s far-right AfD party there is “too much of a focus on past guilt.

Elon Musk urged an audience at a German far-right political rally not to feel “guilty” about their country’s history. The surprise speech comes less than a week after he was accused of making a “Sieg Heil”-style salute while giving a speech during President Donald Trump’s inauguration.