Third parties have never worked, so he can have fun with it – President Trump reacts after his former close ally Elon Musk formed a new political party

US 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 US 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After Musk left his role as a special government employee in the Trump administration, Isaacman’s nomination was withdrawn.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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