Honest answer, from this side of the Atlantic. During the 2024 Southport riots, with mosques and asylum hotels under attack, he posted that “civil war is inevitable”. Numerous times. In September 2025 he told the Unite the Kingdom rally in London, fronted by violent far-right multiply convicted criminal Tommy Robinson that people should “fight back or die” and called for Parliament to be dissolved. He has backed Germany’s AfD, called for Tommy Robinson’s release from prison, and labelled our safeguarding minister a “rape genocide apologist”. At DOGE he helped dismantle USAID. A study in The Lancet projected the cuts could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including over 4.5 million children under five. He bought a platform, gutted its safety teams, reinstated banned extremists, and now uses it to push his own divisive politics to hundreds of millions of people. Earlier this year his own AI, Grok, was generating sexualised images of real women and children on request. He repeatedly tells his followers that Hitler and the Nazis were left-wing socialists, a claim historians overwhelmingly reject. Hitler crushed trade unions, banned the Social Democrats and sent communists and real socialists to the first concentration camps. Relabelling Nazism as “far left” lets him brand his opponents the real Nazis while he amplifies the actual far right. So for many of us the objection comes down mainly to one thing: the richest man alive using his fortune and his megaphone to stir up harmful division and interfere in other people’s democracies.