Elon Musk says he’s created new America Party, in challenge to Trump’s Republicans
The world’s richest man fell out with Trump in spectacularly public fashion over the US president’s ‘big beautiful bill’
Elon Musk, an ex-ally of US President Donald Trump, said on Saturday he had launched a new political party in the United States to challenge what the tech billionaire described as the country’s “one-party system”.
Musk, the world’s richest person and Trump’s biggest political donor in the 2024 election, had a bitter falling out with the president after leading the Republican’s effort to slash spending and cut federal jobs as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” the SpaceX and Tesla boss posted social media.
“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
Musk cited a poll – posted on X, the social media platform he owns – 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 received 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.