Agency Report –
Berlin – Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeness has sharply criticized billionaire and Tesla owner Elon Musk.
“He’s not quite right in the head,” Hoeness told the Maischberger talk show on Wednesday evening.
Musk has become a close ally of US President Donald Trump during the presidential election campaign.
Following the election victory, Trump appointed Musk as a cost-cutter for the US government, granting him broad powers.
Now, the billionaire entrepreneur is working with the White House-affiliated Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to restructure the state apparatus, including mass lay-offs.
“I’m very afraid. If a man like that is supposed to decide the fate of employees, workers, the unemployed, then I have to say, if it stays that way in America, then good night America,” Hoeness said.
With regard to Germany, Hoeness expressed great hopes for a coalition between the centre-right CDU/CSU bloc and the centre-left SPD party.
“You have to give this new government a chance. If this goes wrong, then in a new election in four years, the (far-right) AfD, for example, may get votes that they don’t deserve and that they are not capable of. And then comes the time of the incompetent and we all don’t want that,” he warned.
