Elon Musk asked if he was “time to create a new political party in America” in the middle of his disorderly public quarrel with the president Donald Trump.
Why it matters
Musk left his role with the Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) last week, but did not take long Return against the president and criticize the “one big beauty bill” that the House of Representatives adopted last month.
THE Tesla The CEO and former Trump ally described the “scandalous” and “pork” bill, attacking the Republicans who voted for that.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X earlier this week. “This discharge bill of the massive, scandalous and pork congress is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for this: you know you have done it. You know.”
What to know
Musk degenerated his quarrel with the administration Thursday by publish a survey This asked the question: “Is it time to create a new political party in America that really represents 80% in the middle?”
More than 400,000 people have already responded, with 83.4% in favor of the creation of a third intermediate party.
Other high -level personalities have discussed the potential of a third party in American politics, many consider it a non -viable option: the tea party began as a galvanization force that the Republican Absorbed party and independent senator Bernie Sanders Twice ran to be the Democratic candidate because he saw him as the only way to the presidency.
Former Trump assistant Anthony Scaramucci, in an interview with Nowsweek In December, even speculated on the potential benefits of Trump’s victory in the 2024 American presidential election which would include a third party, but added: “It cannot happen. It will not happen.”
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“You cannot have a third of the United States, Ross Perot killed this,” said Scaramucci. “Ross Perot ran for the president, obtained 19.9% of the votes, frightened the day’s light from these two parties. They are located. They gathered, hugged their hand, gave the little pliers.”
Trump resumed Musk’s criticism, saying both in a press group in the oval office and in an article on social social that Musk’s opposition to the invoice comes, rather, the abolition of an electric vehicle mandate “which forced everyone to buy electric cars that no one else wanted”.
Trump Thursday also intensified the issue by threatening in a social post: “The simplest means of saving money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate the subsidies and government contracts of Elon. I have always been surprised that Biden did not do it!”
What people say
President Donald Trump Written on Truth Social: “Elon” wore thin “, I asked him to leave, I removed his mandate EV who forced everyone to buy electric cars that no one else wanted (that he knew for months that I was going to do!), And he went crazy!”
Elon Musk wrote on X: “Keep the reductions in EV / solar incentives in the bill, also reduce all the increases in crazy expenditure in the major ugly bill so that America does not go bankrupt!”
What happens next
Trump and Musk continue to degenerate their dispute, displaying other revelations on X and Truth Social as they continue to negotiate verbal hair.
Update 6/5/25, 3:33 pm and: This article has been updated with additional information, context and content.