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.”
If someone else had started a third party, it might have pulled support from both parties. But, I think there aren’t many democrats who will join his party after he did so much to get Trump elected, then worked for his government for a while.
I hope he throws billions at this project, because IMO the only thing it might do is fracture the GOP base.