Fehde with tech billionaire: Trump and Musk continue to argue – new party again topic

The feud between US President Donald Trump and his former consultant and tech billionaire Elon Musk takes a new attempt. Both raged against each other on social media on Monday and at night (local time). As usual, the topic was the tax and expenditure law promoted by Trump – but again a possible new political party in the United States.

“Elon may get more subsidies than any other person in history, and by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close his shop and go back home back to South Africa,” Trump wrote on his online language tube Truth Social. “No more rocket starts, satellites or electric car production, and our country would save a fortune.”

Musk speaks warning against MPs

Previously, the Tech billionaire Musk had bought against the tax and expenditure law in a series of contributions on social media- and threatened the deputy. “Every member of the congress who was promoted by reducing government expenditure and then immediately voted for the greatest increase in debt in history should be ashamed!” He wrote on the platform X. “and they will lose their area code next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth.”

The dispute between Trump and Musk, which resulted in an open mud fight, had ignited the law. The US President wants to implement central election promises – Musk, on the other hand, demands significantly stronger spending cuts.

The law is currently being negotiated in the Senate. If the Congress Chamber is happening, you still need approval in the House of Representatives. Trump has been advertising the law for weeks – and also exerts pressure on critics within the Republican Party. Like Musk, conservative devices have recently criticized the fact that the project does not go far enough for the cuts of government spending.

Musk speaks of “pork-thick party”

In another post, Musk criticized that “insane expenses of this draft law” made it clear that “we live in a one-party country”-that of the “Schweinchen-Dick party”. It was time for a new political party that would actually worry about people, he wrote. If the law is adopted, he wrote in another post, “the” America Party “will be founded the next day.” Musk had already proposed a few weeks ago to found a new party in the middle.

In his post, Trump also referred to the so-called EV mandate-a state requirement in the most populous US state of California, according to which only battery-operated or hybrid cars should be sold from 2035. Trump had been a thorn in the side for a long time. He signed decisions in mid-June that the Republican majorities in both congress chambers had said goodbye in the weeks before, and stopped this program.

Musk knew long before his support for Trump as a presidential candidate that he was against this program, Trump said. “It is ridiculous and was always an important part of my campaign. Electric cars are good, but not everyone should be forced to own one.”