Elon Musk has expanded his influence beyond business into global politics through secret diplomatic meetings with leaders from Iran to Israel, while endorsing far-right parties across Europe including Spain’s Vox and Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland. The billionaire leverages his X platform to amplify anti-immigration messages across 18 countries, spent $277 million supporting Trump’s 2024 campaign, and launched the America Party for US midterm elections. European governments now scrutinize his activities for potential foreign interference as his political web continues expanding.
While traditionally maintaining distance from direct political involvement, Elon Musk has constructed an unprecedented global network of political endorsements, diplomatic meetings, and strategic interventions that span multiple continents and government systems.
Musk’s international political activities have encompassed endorsements of far-right parties across Europe, including Spain’s Vox party, which he predicted would achieve election victory in 2025, and Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland during the 2025 German federal elections. His use of X, formerly Twitter, to amplify anti-immigration and deregulatory messages has reached audiences in at least 18 countries since 2023, prompting European governments to scrutinize his activities as potential foreign interference.
Direct diplomatic engagements have positioned Musk as an informal international mediator, including meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Tesla factory in 2023, followed by tours of kibbutz sites attacked by Hamas. He participated in high-level discussions regarding Gaza war hostage situations with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and reportedly met Iranian Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani in 2024 to address Iran-US diplomatic issues, while intervening in international detention cases involving Iran, Italy, and American interests.
Musk has emerged as an unofficial diplomatic channel, conducting sensitive negotiations between hostile nations and mediating international crises.
Domestically, Musk announced creation of the America Party to contest US midterm elections and influence Congressional outcomes, utilizing social media to solicit public feedback and build momentum around opposition to federal spending bills. The party’s formal status remains unconfirmed through federal ballot access filings as of July 2025, while political friction has emerged with former ally Donald Trump over tax cuts and federal spending policies. The America Party’s strategy focuses on identifying neglected voter preferences outside traditional partisan boundaries, particularly targeting issues like free trade advocacy and technological supremacy that both major parties have failed to address effectively.
Musk’s media strategy leverages X’s platform algorithms to boost right-wing causes internationally, hosting livestreamed policy discussions with political leaders and mobilizing followers during election cycles. His political activities have joined video calls with Italy’s right-wing Lega party and influenced real-time political narratives through direct responses to critics and policymakers. Musk has positioned himself as the largest individual donor since 2010, spending $277 million to elect Trump and allied Republicans in 2024.
These political engagements intersect with Musk’s corporate interests, as Tesla and SpaceX maintain billions in government contracts while his public statements potentially impact market performance and jurisdictional negotiations, creating complex relationships between his advocacy efforts and business dependencies.
