Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been a harsh critic of President Donald Trump's spending bill. Trump said Musk had "gone off the rails."

Elon Musk declared on X the formation of a new political party amid his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump over the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,” Musk wrote in an X post on Saturday.

The Tesla CEO had said Friday on his social media platform that one way the new party could work is to focus on winning just a handful of Senate seats and House districts that could serve as the “deciding vote” on “contentious laws,” given the “razor-thin legislative margins” in Congress.

In response, Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Sunday that Musk had gone “completely off the rails.”

  • thallamabond@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    This is not a political party, it is something else.

    A component of a political platform is often called a plank – the opinions and viewpoints about an individual topic, as held by a party, person, or organization. The word “plank” depicts a component of an overall political platform, as a metaphorical reference to a basic stage made of boards or planks of wood

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_platform

    Platforms are built with planks, Elon has no platform.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      The right-wing political power machine has been running on vibes instead of sincerely held beliefs for a while now.

      People who like Musk better than Trump will just make up bullshit about both to justify their choice.