Elon Musk announces his own political party following Trump feud

Published on 05/07/2025 - 23:57 GMT+2

Elon Musk announced he will create a caller governmental statement successful nan United States conscionable weeks aft a nationalist fallout pinch US President Donald Trump.

The tech mogul announced connected his societal media level X that he had group up a statement called nan America Party, which is formed to “give you backmost your freedom,” Musk wrote connected Saturday.

Musk said that nan statement would situation nan two-party Republican and Democratic system. It is unclear if America Party has been formally registered pinch predetermination authorities, but he said it would motorboat “next year”.

The move comes aft he asked his followers connected July 4 if he should create a governmental party.

“By a facet of 2 to 1, you want a caller governmental statement and you shall person it!

"When it comes to bankrupting our state pinch discarded & graft, we unrecorded successful a one-party system, not a democracy,” Must wrote connected X.

After initially supporting Trump successful his re-election bid, some publically connected X and financially, Musk had a high-profile domiciled successful nan US government’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

But successful May, Musk announced he was leaving nan authorities department, arsenic it was nan extremity of his “scheduled time” arsenic a typical authorities employee. Trump past praised him arsenic "one of nan top business leaders and innovators nan world has ever produced".

However, connected May 22, nan narration took a move aft nan US House of Representatives passed a important portion of legislation, a tax-cut and spending bill, which was signed into rule by Trump connected Friday.

The document, called nan One Big Beautiful Bill Act, intends to fast-track argumentation astir spending and has hundreds of projected changes, specified arsenic taxation cuts to changes successful societal benefits, specified arsenic wellness care.

Musk has called it a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending measure is simply a disgusting abomination”.

Musk based on nan bill's spending would summation nan "already gigantic fund deficit" and "burden American citizens pinch crushingly unsustainable debt".

Earlier this week, Trump threatened to trim disconnected nan billion-dollar national subsidies that travel to Musk's companies, and moreover hinted astatine considering to deport him.