A day after asking his followers on X whether a new US political party should be created, Elon Musk said on Saturday that the “America Party is formed.”
Musk, the world’s richest person and President Donald Trump’s biggest political donor in the 2024 election, had a bitter falling out with the president after leading the Republican’s effort to slash spending and cut federal jobs as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” the Space X and Tesla boss posted on X, the social media platform that he owns.
Musk cited a poll – posted on X on Friday, US Independence Day – in which he asked whether respondents “want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system” that has dominated US politics for some two centuries.
The yes-or-no survey earned more than 1.2 million responses.
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” he posted on Saturday.
Musk spent hundreds of millions on Trump’s re-election and led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under the Trump administration aimed at slashing government spending, but the two have since fallen out over disagreements about the bill.
The Trump-Musk feud reignited in dramatic fashion late last month as Trump pushed Republicans in Congress to ram through his massive domestic agenda in the form of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Musk had previously threatened to start a new political party and spend money to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill.
The billionaire businessman first floated the idea in early June, shortly after resigning from his DOGE position. He took it up again on Tuesday, shortly before the US Senate voted on the massive spending bill.
Trump responded by threatening to cut off the billions of dollars in subsidies that Musk’s companies receive from the federal government.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said he would “take a look” at measures to consider deporting the South African-born Musk, who has held US citizenship since 2002.
“We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon,” Trump said.
(FRANCE 24)
