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Germany’s Far-Right AfD Says It Will Attend Trump’s Inauguration

Along with Reform UK’s Nigel Farage and French right-wing extremist Éric Zemmour, they’re the latest addition to the EuroMAGA groupies that will attend Trump’s swearing in.

Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right German political party suspected of extremism by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, said it has accepted an invite to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. The AfD’s co-leader Tino Chrupalla and parliamentary group leader Beatrix von Storch will attend, Chrupalla told news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur Thursday, saying the invite came from within Republican circles. After his election win in November, Trump greeted and posed with an AfD candidate accused of being a one-time porn actor at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Elon Musk, Trump’s MAGA billionaire backer, has been an ardent AfD cheerleader in recent weeks. Last week, Musk interviewed the party’s other co-leader, Alice Weidel, for over an hour on his social media platform X, and promoted the anti-immigrant, Islamophobic AfD in advance of a federal election scheduled for Feb. 23. The far-right party is currently second in the polls, though is unlikely to join government as the other major parties have pledged not to work with it. Other staples of the European alt-right slated to be at Trump’s inauguration are Reform UK chief Nigel Farage and the French right-wing extremist Éric Zemmour. Italy’s right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has visited with Trump and Musk at Mar-a-Lago in recent weeks, has said she would like to attend but has yet to finalize her schedule.