Monday, July 7, 2025 - President Donald Trump has hit out at former close ally Elon Musk for launching a new political party.
"I think it's ridiculous to start a third party,"
said Trump, speaking to reporters on Sunday, July 6, before boarding Air Force
One. "It's always been a two-party system and I think starting a third
party just adds to the confusion."
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO formed the new political party over
the weekend after his public and bitter falling-out with President Donald Trump to challenge the Republican and Democratic
"Uniparty".
In a post on his social media platform, Truth
Social, President Trump elaborated: “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go
completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past
five weeks,” the president wrote. “He even wants to start a Third Political
Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States”.
“The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of
Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS,” Trump added. He then went on to
claim that Musk was motivated by discontent over his plan to end subsidies to
promote the purchase of electric vehicles.
Trump also accused Musk of seeking improper influence by
asking the president to nominate his friend, Jared Isaacman, to be NASA
administrator.
After Musk left his role as a special government employee in
the Trump administration, Isaacman’s nomination was withdrawn.
“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,” Trump wrote.
Recall Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support
Trump's re-election and led the so-called Department of Government Efficiency
or DOGE in the Trump administration, which aimed to cut government spending,
before their disagreements spilt into the open.
He revived the idea of a new political party last week as US
lawmakers approved Trump's sweeping tax and spending bill.
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