Musk floats 'The American Party' after Trump tiff

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

06/06/25 8:26 PM ET


Elon Musk floated a new political party on Friday after falling out with President Trump over the big, beautiful bill. He launched a Thursday poll on the social platform X, which he owns, asking about whether or not the country needed a new faction for political nominees.

“The people have spoken. A new political party is needed in America to represent the 80% in the middle! And exactly 80% of people agree. This is fate,” Musk wrote, citing numbers from his survey. He followed up with a potential name for the group, “The America Party.” In recent days, Musk has railed against Trump for suggesting the United States increase its national debt by $4 trillion as proposed in the bill.

The tech giant said it “undermines” all the work he did at the Department of Government Efficiency, geared towards reducing government spending. However, Trump said the Tesla CEO was mad over slashes to electric vehicle incentives instead of other clauses in the legislation.

“Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here. … He had no problem with it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we’re going to have to cut the EV mandate, because that’s billions and billions of dollars,” he added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5338113-musk-floats-the-american-party-after-trump-tiff/

[lonely bird]

1. How to put this gently?

Fuck Musk.

Confiscate his assets. Revoke his citizenship. Deport his ass to South Sudan.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Just another flavor of

an egomaniacal, self centered, Malignant Narcissist, psychopath.....

[k_buddy762]

28. Why South Sudan?

[lonely bird]

31. Treat him

Like ICE treats people

[chelsea0011]

2. 80% middle?

More like 5%

[tanyev]

4. Yep, and the only ones who still think Elon is God are on the far, far right.

[Bengus81]

7. Yeah...and those dip shits are so stupid they don't realize Musk will take

away everything they need to make it through life as a non billionaires. But hell...they voted for Trump who promised to can the ACA.

Stupid is as Stupid does............

[DrFunkenstein]

15. I think he missed the point of Bernie's speech...

Elon should start a party for the top 1% of the top 1%. They are incredibly underrepresented in our government.

[Bluetus]

17. 80% of the Nazis on Twitter

But we should encourage this. He will take a lot of MAGA votes.

[thesquanderer]

22. Actually, Gallup says we're 28% Dem, 28% Repub, and 43% Independent.

Though once you factor out the independents who "lean" one way or the other, only 9% remain totally "in the middle."

https://news.gallup.com/poll/655157/gop-holds-edge-party-affiliation-third-straight-year.aspx#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%2D%2D%20Americans'%20political,edge%20once%20before%2C%20in%201991.

[Escurumbele]

29. Its the 73% bots he has running on twitter, they are not valid but he obviusly manipulate it them to say "yes, I will

vote for you Elon"...Its BS, nothing else.

[PortTack]

34. Bingo!

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Bait-and-Switch

Musk attempting to assume the WH through democratic means -- and like TSF, he won't give up his power.

[Shipwack]

24. Musk is constitutionally barred from becoming President.

Though he could be a puppet master, I suppose.

(All of this is theoretical because a third party under Musk has a near 0 chance of gaining any traction…)

[marble falls]

5. Third parties won't work until we change from winner takes all, and we adopt a Parliamentary Congress. And ...

... the Musks in this country loose the power of their money in politics.

[The Madcap]

26. I, for one, would like more than three.

Forces the building of consensus to get anything done. Also, it exposes the nutcases and removes their cover from other, more moderate, Party members.

[marble falls]

35. Once it's over two, there will be more than three. And in a Parlementary system it works, it compels ompromise.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Musk will keep trying to buy the White House.

He thought he had purchased the WH and entire US govt.
It's not working out too well for him so he will try it again.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. The Republican Senate,

starting in 2016, literally created the modern day version of Frankenstein's Monster, and have absolutely no idea on how to control it, or his cult of voters..

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yes and no.

Yes on the one hand they created a monster who has now turned on them.

But the reality is that the GOP congress and judges agree with the monster,
they love what he is doing, and are part of the monstrous actions taking place.

They created a monster because they are monsters themselves.

[Wonder Why]

11. The most un-American person in the country is calling it what?

[moniss]

12. You can easily guess who will be

their candidate for President.

[thesquanderer]

21. Musk can't run for president, he's not a natural born citizen. (n/t)

[moniss]

25. Yes indeed my oversight but he could be anything else

like a Senator or governor. I think this is very much about setting up a political organization that can receive massive donations and be under his control so that he doesn't have to spend as much of his own money and still have massive influence and the additional wedge of threatening primaries in order to siphon votes against someone who isn't to his liking.

[IronLionZion]

33. These a-holes have been doing a lot of unconstitutional stuff they supposedly can't do nt

[JHB]

13. We already have a sane party, FElon. It's called the Democratic Party

Your fake "department" hasn't done anything effective and has only cause damage because you live in a propaganda-fed fantasy world where there are vast pools of "waste" that can just be cut away. And all in service of whatever freaky fantasy for the future your stunted mind has.

All your freakish actions are doing is telling people that maybe it's time to end the Reagan Revolution and raise your goddamn taxes to help pay for all the costs you're putting on us.

[travelingthrulife]

14. Deport him. He can form the American Party from south africa

[Gary 50]

16. A new fascist right wing party which will siphon off half of the votes now going to the Republican fascist party.

Bring it on dipshit.

[Quanto Magnus]

18. Any political party Eloon is involved in

is going to be fascist.....

[generalbetrayus]

19. I might take Muskrat's proposal seriously

if he in any way cared about "the 80% in the middle"!

[Mysterian]

20. They forgot the "Nazi" between "American" and "Party"

I'm sure they will correct the omission soon.

[ToxMarz]

23. Surprised he didn't go for the National Party.

[Javaman]

27. Please, proceed mr. Simpering billionaire. my

[Born Free]

30. Ross Perot

I remember Ross Perot, I do not think a new right wing party will hurt Democrats. Musk may even get enough currently elected Republicans to switch, making the Democrats the majority party

[Javaman]

32. That's why I'm all for it, but it won't have the power he thinks

It’ll certainly help the dems but it will never get big enough to hold any real power.

Let him spend his money to primary repukes

I’m all for him wasting his dough lol