Elon Musk called some Trump supporters "contemptible fools" as debate raged among Republicans about H-1B immigration visas. It echoed Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" remark from the 2016 election about Trump voters.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doubling down on their support for an immigration program that brings skilled workers to the U.S. Musk has long championed the H-1B visa and this weekend Trump said he’s “always been in favor of the visas.

President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters. Trump, in an interview with the New York Post on Saturday,

Did you know that Germany has a parliamentary election coming up? Musk knows. Germany’s government is in crisis and the coalition that was ruling it has collapsed. At the end of February, Germans will decide the future of the country. Musk would like that future to be a hard-right turn.

In his opinion piece, Musk called the AfD "the last spark of hope" for Germany and argued in favor of the party's positions on energy, economic recovery and migration, saying they reflect "the principles that made Tesla and SpaceX successful," according to a Euronews translation.

The German government accused U.S. billionaire Elon Musk on Monday of trying to influence its election due in February with articles supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, even though it suggested they amounted to “nonsense.