A German activist, often dubbed the ‘anti-Greta Thunberg,’ has reportedly sought asylum in the United States, citing concerns for her safety. Naomi Seibt, who is 25 years old, claims to have the support of tech mogul Elon Musk in her quest for refuge.
Seibt first stepped into the spotlight as a teenager when she was recruited by a conservative think tank in 2020 to serve as their “international poster girl” against the green movement. Her rise to fame has drawn comparisons to climate activist Greta Thunberg, though Seibt’s views diverge significantly.
Seibt’s association with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, she contends, has put her at risk in her home country. She’s currently looking to leverage new U.S. asylum policies under former President Donald Trump, which prioritize applicants from certain European and South African backgrounds.
Her connection with Musk began last year when the billionaire amplified her posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Seibt claims Musk has expressed concerns about her safety in Europe, which has reinforced her decision to seek asylum.
“Elon has expressed his fears about traveling to Europe due to significant threats, and he personally confirmed this to me,” Seibt shared with Fox News Digital. “That conversation was pivotal in my decision to apply for asylum. He has endorsed my application.”
Currently residing in the United States, Seibt states she is in the country legally and is waiting for a formal interview that she hopes will secure her asylum status.
The pair have interacted personally since Musk began retweeting her posts and discussed the issues she faces in private messages and has been supportive of her attempt to one day become a US citizen.
‘My goal in the meantime is to become an American citizen in the future because this country has given me so much hope,’ she said.
Naomi Seibt (pictured) – a conservative German activist who once reached viral fame as the ‘anti-Greta Thunberg’ – now fears for her life and has applied for asylum in the United States
After first interacting with him and having her posts on X boosted by him last year, Elon Musk appears ready to help Seibt
Seibt argued that German authorities have spied on her and threatened her ‘for years’ and is worried she will be put in prison, while at the same time facing death threats from Antifa.
‘I went to the German police, and they told me that they can’t do anything about it as long as I have not actually been raped or killed,’ she said.
‘I am not getting protection from the German government even though I am at major risk of potentially being killed.’
Seibt said that despite laws against penalizing speech critical of politicians, she will be arrested if she ever returns to her homeland.
Last year, she made headlines for her take on the Magdeburg Christmas market slaughter which was boosted by Musk.
She claimed the attack was carried out by Islamists, although that has not been proven. The activist when wrote on X: ‘Elon Musk is right: Only the AfD can save Germany.’
She was brought to the attention of Americans in 2020, when the Heartland Institute created a YouTube video that pitched Seibt against Thunberg.
‘I have good news for you. The world is not ending because of climate change,’ Seibt says in the video for the lobbying group.
‘People are being force-fed a very dystopian agenda of climate alarmism that tells us that we as humans are destroying the planet and that we, the young people especially, have no future.’
Seibt, 25, rose to fame as a teenager, with her views on climate change the polar opposite to those of Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg (pictured)
She was brought to the attention of Americans in 2020, when a YouTube video created by the Heartland Institute, a think tank which firmly rejects climate change, pitched Seibt against Thunberg
In another video entitled ‘Naomi Seibt vs. Greta Thunberg: whom should we trust?’, footage is seen of both teens as they make their opposing cases.
Seibt called Thunberg a proponent of ‘climate alarmism’.
‘I used to be a climate change alarmist myself because, obviously, as a young girl I grew up around the climate change hysteria in the media, in my school books.
‘I was an innocent young girl and I thought by hugging the trees I could save the planet, which quite frankly turned out not to be true,’ she says in one YouTube video.
Seibt said the thinking at the time on climate change was an ‘insult to science, and the complexity of nature, and freedom of speech’ adding ‘it is important we keep questioning the narrative that is out there.’
‘Climate change alarmism at its very core is a despicably anti-human ideology. We are told to look down on our achievements with guilt, shame, disgust and not even to take into account the many major benefits we have from using fossil fuels as our main energy source.
‘Look around. We are living in such an amazing era of fast progress and innovation. We are not allowed to be proud of that at all? Instead debates are being shut down and real scientists lose their jobs.’
The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House for comment on Seibt’s asylum claim.
