It’s not a third party or even a fourth party. There are already over 50 political parties in America that field candidates, including the Libertarian Party, Green Party, and Constitution Party. But none of them are headed by Elon Musk.
After a very public and nasty breakup with President Donald Trump, the billionaire entrepreneur announced the formation of a new national political party on Saturday, declaring that “the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
Musk, once a Democrat, had enthusiastically supported Trump and was tapped to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after Trump’s inauguration earlier this year.
But the alliance quickly unraveled in a series of fiery online exchanges, culminating in Musk’s blistering criticism of Trump’s signature legislation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed Congress and was signed into law on Independence Day. The sweeping spending bill, totaling more than $9 trillion, funds infrastructure, Arctic security, and new federal agencies, but Musk lambasted it as reckless.
“This bill will bankrupt the country,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter. “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.”
On Friday, Musk posted a flash poll to his 200 million followers, asking whether America needs a new political party. The response was swift and overwhelming — with more than 70% responding “yes,” according to Musk — prompting Saturday’s official announcement of the America Party.
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it,” Musk declared. “We can’t wait for the system to fix itself. Today, the America Party is formed.”
While details about the party’s structure, leadership, or ballot access efforts are unknown, Musk’s deep pockets and massive online influence all but guarantee the effort will shake up the 2026 midterms and beyond. He has not indicated whether he will run for office himself, but as a foreign-born citizen, he is not eligible to be president. Those close to Musk suggest he is already in talks with disaffected independents and younger politicians disillusioned with the status quo.
Critics on both the left and right dismissed the move as a vanity project, while others warned it could fracture the conservative movement just as Trump seeks to consolidate his second-term agenda.
Trump wrote a long commentary about Musk’s move: “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely “off the rails,” essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks. He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States – The System seems not designed for them. The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds! Republicans, on the other hand, are a smooth running “machine,” that just passed the biggest Bill of its kind in the History of our Country. It is a Great Bill but, unfortunately for Elon, it eliminates the ridiculous Electric Vehicle (EV) Mandate, which would have forced everyone to buy an Electric Car in a short period of time. I have been strongly opposed to that from the very beginning. People are now allowed to buy whatever they want – Gasoline Powered, Hybrids (which are doing very well), or New Technologies as they come about – No more EV Mandate. I have campaigned on this for two years and, quite honestly, when Elon gave me his total and unquestioned Endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV Mandate – It was in every speech I made, and in every conversation I had. He said he had no problems with that – I was very surprised! Additionally, Elon asked that one of his close friends run NASA and, while I thought his friend was very good, I was surprised to learn that he was a blue blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before. Elon probably was, also. I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon’s corporate life. My Number One charge is to protect the American Public!”
For now, the tech mogul appears undeterred by the challenges of party politics. “If the system won’t change, we’ll build a new one,” he posted late Saturday. “That’s what Americans do.”
Somewhat like the Tea Party movement. Some influence in the short run, but DC corrupts all who spend any length of time within the halls of power. If this takes off and ppl actually win seats in the House, with whom would they caucus? Uni-party R or Uni-party D? And how many ‘safe’ conservative seats would roll blue due to vote splitting? We have watched this same lack of discipline here in Alaska for decades. I laud the notion, but I don’t see positive outcomes, other than changing the conversation.
So this “genius” wants to split the GOP vote.
I hope trump sends him back to Africa … plenty of problems there for him to “fix”
I do agree the BBB spends too much money, but that is no reason to hand the country back to the progs.
I am very sad to see Elon try to force everyone support his mandate to buy only his electric cars!! I personally do not think it will go over too well mostly because there are not that many people who can afford to buy battery operated cars!! Thank goodness there are finally more Americans that are beginning to find sanity with what Trump has already done to bring this country back to reality!!
This is a long needed development. The Uniparty has no competition, and no one has yet come forward with the finances or media presence to get a party off the ground.
With a feasible goal of electing a couple senators and 4 or 5 representatives, a new party could end the monopoly of the Dems and fake GOP who put on clown shows that serve to pretend there are actually 2 parties.
Everything Trump ran on, which sure seemed real during the campaign has turned out to be fake. Enough of bread and circus acts.
Are you saying Trumps a liar, lmao.
Musk acts like a child who didn’t get his way and thinks this will make things better?? Yeah sorry the last thing we need is another BS political party run by a man who can’t figure out how to be an adult and stop arguing when things don’t go his way. He is off the rails…. At this point I would not trust ANYTHING Musk does or says! He’s a petchulant child having a fit because he thinks he can do what he wants like Tony Stark for Pete’s sakes!
GO TRUMP!!..
We support you ALL the way…
I wish these two would kiss and make up. Elon is acting like a spoiled brat. It makes me wonder more about his motives in befriending Trump ………………
playing this out in the media needs to stop.
He was great, helping Trump to expose the anti-American money grabbing tricks of the Democrat party, but NOW he is going abit extreme..Nothing like backstabbing the President playing dirty against the President of the US..
This will divide the Republican/conservative vote and deliver the midterms and the 2028 election to the (D)ems. Just like Ross Perot. He has to know this. And any party that gets the early endorsement of Mark Cuban and Anthony Scaramucci is doomed to fail. I like Musk. I love what he did with DOGE. This seems to be more of a temper tantrum that a winnable idea.
As a lifelong conservative, if this means the end of the corrupt and incompetent Republican party, good. We just watched the Republicans throw it all away. We had the House, the Senate, and the White House, and what did we get?
1. More taxes. They call these taxes “tariffs” like that makes any difference. It doesn’t.
2. More spending.
3. An authorization to increase the US debt limit by another $5 trillion dollars.
4. No balanced budget, or even a discussion about why we need a balanced budget.
5. Military strikes- at great cost- with no declaration of war.
Democrats are worse. But Republicans in DC have betrayed us. They deserve what happens next.
I’m with your assessment N, but you are wrong that “Democrats are worse”. America has never endured the cruelty and destruction of the Fertilization President’s administration. He is, ostensibly, a Republican. No other administration, Republican or Democrat, has been this corrupt.
The current system of government is trash and led by those that line their pockets ostensibly in the service of the electorate. That won’t change without effort and the best way to predict the future is to shape it. Nothing we’ve seen from Musk is worse than what we’ve seen from Trump… or Biden… or the mulatto prior to both that started us all on a downward slope.
It’s time to stop electing geriatric theater and those that want something for themselves or whomever they deem ‘their people’.
Self serving? How about currently appointed court officials deciding there’s nothing in the Epstein files that merits public scrutiny (or even viewing).
mulatto is a racist term.
No, it is not.
And we normal people are sick to DEATH of you radical leftists and your faux moral preening and your linguistic Stalinism already.
Spoken like a big strong white guy.
Easy Big Fella. Don’t know why you got your withers all flagged up. To some (not radical right wing word smiths like you), mulatto is a racist term.
I don’t think it is a racist term. Never heard it called the M word. I think it’s roots are in Latin America where mix races are the norm, it certainly has a Latin sound to it. I remember the word used a lot in Chicago in grade school for people who where half black, and Latin. They referred to themselves with the word, because they weren’t all black, and weren’t all Latin——I personally don’t use the word, LATINO, it has a phony woke history to it. I find that Latin Americans like to be called SPANIARDS. They are usually surprised when I use the word, then they smile and say yeah. They Speak Spanish not Latino, their names are Spanish not Latino. I think Latino is a worse word to use than Mulatto. Anyway, my 2 cents from a different time period.
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At least Elon appears to have some principles. With the current President, everything is negotiable. Elon may have zeroed in on the yardstick that when the required payments on the debt exceed the expenditures for national defense, a country is in serious trouble. We are there now and the deficit is accelerating.
The Alaska Congressional delegation is part of the problem: They seem to believe that political problems can be solved by spending more money.
Elon is on record saying he wants unlimited immigration from India. Tens of millions a year instead of the 2 million a year that get imported. He had a twitter meltdown on Christmas saying Americans are too dumb to do the jobs they’re currently doing
The Musk etters.
The Musketeers
Musk thinks humans can live on Mars, he also wants to put computer chips in our brains. The man is delusional. Please do not trust this man.
Split the vote. Cool.
Ah yes. perpetuating the illusion of choice.