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Elon Musk has announced that he is moving ahead with plans to create a new political party. The move comes on the heels of a falling out between the billionaire and President Donald Trump over tax and spending policy. 

Both Republicans and Democrats are only wasting taxpayers’ money and damaging the US economy, Musk claimed on Saturday. “When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” he wrote in a post on X, the social media platform he owns. “Today, the America party is formed to give you your freedom.”

The billionaire did not elaborate on how much progress he had made with his plan. For a new nationwide party to be formed, its founding organization should qualify as a political party committee and register with the Federal Election Commission.

Musk first floated the idea of launching the America Party last month before reiterating his plans this week and confirming his intention to press ahead on Saturday. He tied the move to his opposition to Trump’s sweeping multitrillion-dollar tax and spending package, dubbed the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’. 

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“If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” Musk wrote earlier this week, ahead of the Senate and House votes on the bill. 

The legislation, which Trump signed on Friday, allocates hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending for the president’s border and national security agenda and imposes steep cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and clean-energy subsidies – something Musk’s company Tesla reportedly benefited from. 

Musk polled his followers on X about launching his party on Friday, hours before Trump signed the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’. On Saturday, he stated that “by a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!”

However, Musk may still have a long road ahead of him, according to Brett Kappel, a veteran election lawyer, who was asked to comment on the issue by CBS News. Each US state has different legal rules for recognizing political parties, he explained, adding that the hurdles for new ones “range from high to extraordinarily difficult to overcome.” Building a national party could take years, he said.

https://www.rt.com/news/621051-musk-forms-new-party/

 

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

china and musk....

 

‘A billion people backing you’: China transfixed as Musk turns against Trump
Tesla CEO’s feud with US president dominates Chinese social media, with many praising his ‘tech-driven mindset’

 

Few break-ups have as many gossiping observers as the fallout between the once inseparable Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

The ill-fated bromance between the US president and the world’s richest man, which once raised questions about American oligarchy, is now being pored over by social media users in China, many of whom are Team Musk.

The latest drama comes from Musk’s pledge to found a new political party, the America party, if Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, which Musk described as “insane” passed the Senate this week (it did). Musk had already vowed to unseat lawmakers who backed Trump’s flagship piece of legislation, which is expected to increase US national debt by $3.3tn.

On Wednesday, hours after the bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty went viral on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.

“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – and worth watching,” wrote one Weibo user.

“When you’ve had enough, there’s no need to keep putting up with it,” wrote another.

One comment summed up the mood on the platform: “Brother Musk, you’ve got over a billion people on our side backing you.”

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is widely venerated in China for his business acumen and technological achievements. Tesla’s electric vehicles are the only western brand on Chinese roads that can rival domestic firms, and the company’s biggest factory by volume is in Shanghai. Musk is known to have a close relationship with China’s premier, Li Qiang, while Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, is a social media celebrity in her own right in China.

Musk’s popularity in China follows a well-established trend of Chinese audiences enthusiastically embracing US tech innovators. Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was a bestseller in China, as was his biography of Musk.

Trump, however, is seen by many as being an unpredictable funnyman who has launched the most aggressive trade war on China in recent history.

Some internet users commented that Trump and Musk should grow up. “These two grown men argue nonstop over the smallest things – and the whole world ends up knowing about it,” wrote one user, while another joked: “Every day, Musk is basically live-streaming ‘How Billionaires Argue’”.

The conversation has been allowed to flourish on China’s tightly controlled social media, suggesting that at least some censors are betting that the US political chaos could be no bad thing for China.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/02/a-billion-people-backing-you-china-transfixed-as-musk-turns-against-trump

 

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

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