By STEPHEN M. LEPORE, US SENIOR REPORTER
29 October 2025
A conservative German activist known as the 'anti-Greta Thunberg' said she fears for her life and has applied for asylum in the United States with Elon Musk's backing.
Naomi Seibt, 25, rose to fame as a teenager when she was hired by a conservative think tank in 2020 as their 'international poster girl of its battle against the green movement'
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She now claims her support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made her a target in Germany. The activist hopes to take advantage of Donald Trump's new asylum laws which give preference to white Europeans and South Africans.
After first interacting with Musk and having her posts on X boosted by him last year, the billionaire appears ready to help Seibt.
'Elon has been terrified to go to Europe and knows that there is an extremely high threat and has confirmed this to me personally,' she told Fox News Digital. 'That's when I made the decision to apply for asylum myself. He gave me his approval for that.'
She claims to be currently in America 'legally' and awaiting an interview that will hopefully get 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.
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.
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.
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29 October 2025
A conservative German activist known as the 'anti-Greta Thunberg' said she fears for her life and has applied for asylum in the United States with Elon Musk's backing.
Naomi Seibt, 25, rose to fame as a teenager when she was hired by a conservative think tank in 2020 as their 'international poster girl of its battle against the green movement'
.
She now claims her support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made her a target in Germany. The activist hopes to take advantage of Donald Trump's new asylum laws which give preference to white Europeans and South Africans.
After first interacting with Musk and having her posts on X boosted by him last year, the billionaire appears ready to help Seibt.
'Elon has been terrified to go to Europe and knows that there is an extremely high threat and has confirmed this to me personally,' she told Fox News Digital. 'That's when I made the decision to apply for asylum myself. He gave me his approval for that.'
She claims to be currently in America 'legally' and awaiting an interview that will hopefully get 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.
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.
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.
Activist dubbed 'anti-Greta' seeks asylum in US with help of Elon Musk
Naomi Seibt, 25, rose to fame as a teenager, with her views on climate change the polar opposite to those of Swedish environmental campaigner.
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