After a public fallout with his once-close friend, US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk launched a new political party in the United States to challenge what the tech billionaire described as the country’s “one-party system."
The world’s richest person — and Trump’s biggest political donor in the 2024 election — had a bitter falling out with the president over his “One Big Beautiful Bill", which he dubbed as “disgusting abomination".
In a post on X, the Space X and Tesla boss said: “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy."
“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom," he wrote on X, the social media platform that he owns.
In another post, the billionaire said, “The way we’re going to crack the uniparty system is by using a variant of how Epaminondas shattered the myth of Spartan invincibility at Leuctra: Extremely concentrated force at a precise location on the battlefield."
Musk cited a poll — uploaded on Friday, US Independence Day — in which he asked whether respondents “want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system" that has dominated US politics for some two centuries.
The yes-or-no survey earned more than 1.2 million responses.
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!" he posted on Saturday.
Musk also shared a meme depicting a two-headed snake and the caption “End the Uniparty."
– ‘Laser-focus’ on vulnerable lawmakers.
Elon Musk-Donald Trump Feud
Trump earlier this week threatened to cut off the billions of dollars in subsidies that Musk’s companies receive from the federal government and threatened to deport the SpaceX boss from the US.
Musk had said previously that he would start a new political party and spend money to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill.
Musk, who led the Republican’s effort to slash spending and cut federal jobs as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), clashed with Trump over the president’s massive domestic spending plan, saying it would explode the US debt, and vowed to do everything in his power to defeat lawmakers who voted for it.
Musk expressed fierce opposition to the legislation–which eventually passed Congress–, and ruthlessly attacked its Republican backers for supporting “debt slavery."
He had earlier vowed to launch a new political party to challenge lawmakers who campaigned on reduced federal spending only to vote for the bill, which experts say will pile an extra $3.4 trillion over a decade onto the US deficit.
“They will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth," Musk said earlier this week.
On Friday after posting the poll, Musk laid out a possible political battle plan to pick off vulnerable House and Senate seats and become “the deciding vote" on key legislation.
“One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts," Musk posted on X.
All 435 US House seats are up for grabs every two years, while about one-third of the Senate’s 100 members, who serve six-year terms, are elected every two years.
Source: ANI
