US policy: Braise to Trump: Elon Musk announces his own party

Tech billionaire Elon Musk escalates the feud with his former confidant Donald Trump: he wants to establish his own party in the USA. The Tesla boss announced the name – America Party on the X platform. Musk thus goes to the US President in a maximum opposition.

Musk wrote that the new party would “give back their freedom” to the US citizens. When it comes to being driven into bankruptcy by waste and bribery, “we live in a one -party system, not in a democracy”.

The highlight of the feud with Trump

The announcement Musks marks a preliminary climax of the feud between Trump and the tech billionaire. Nobody had expected this to be: Musk had supported Trump’s election campaign with more than $ 250 million and was commissioned with cost reductions in the government apparatus after the inauguration. The budget cuts and job cuts carried out by the committee dog dogs caused violent criticism and protests in some cases.

But then a mud fight followed in early June. The two covered with violent allegations on social media – everyone could read. For example, Musk wrote: “Without me, Trump would have lost the choice.”

What role does Musk want to play?

The Tesla boss, who also has an electric car plant in Brandenburg, left open what role he wants to play in the announced new party. If he actively contributed to politics, Musk could directly stage himself as a kind of opponent.

De facto two -party system in the USA

Unlike in Germany, where coalitions from several parties form the federal government and many parties are sitting in the Bundestag, there are currently reigning Republicans of Trump in the USA on the one hand and the Democrats on the other.

Other parties also exist, but in fact there is a two -party system in the United States. Smaller parties have little chance of greater political success. The question is how promising the plans of Musk are against this background.

Musk cannot become president

The founder of the SpaceX space company cannot become president himself because he was born in South Africa. As the richest person in the world with an estimated assets of around $ 360 billion, he sees himself able to significantly influence the outcome of elections at different levels. Musk threatened weeks ago to support opponents for Congressmen who vote for the Trump Act.

In March, however, the borders of Musk’s political power became clear. He threw his weight in the election campaign for an important judge post in the state of Wisconsin – and the Republican candidate he supported clearly lost.

Because of his hard right political views, Musk is very unpopular among voters of the democratic party. Due to the break with Trump, large part of the political basis of the Republicans could also turn away from him. Both parties have voters who are on one side of Trump’s course on the right and on the other side of the Democrats too liberal. But Musk had positioned himself so clearly in recent years that it should be difficult for him to win the middle.

After the election, Musk was a close confidante Trumps, who was at the cabinet table to be surprised and – with his little son on his shoulders – became the shadow of the president at many events in the White House.

Most recently, Musk had again excited himself about the large tax and expenditure law signed by Trump on Friday, known as “One Big Beautiful Bill”. Among other things, he demanded far more powerful spending cuts and warned that the further increase in government debt will burden future generations.

Trump celebrated the decided law as a maximum success on the independence day – for him it is an important victory. Musk’s resistance to the law explains Trump with the elimination of electric car sub-tubes, which will make Teslas less affordable.

Musk had already announced that he would found a new party in the middle if the law was going through. On independence day, one of the most important holidays for the Americans, the tech billionaire had almost started a survey on X in contrary to Trump, in which he set the party foundation to vote. A good 65 percent spoke in this in around 1.25 million participants – no overwhelming value, since such surveys on Musk’s platform are often dominated by his followers. On Saturday, Musk added: “You want a new political party and you should have it.”

Election advertising for the AfD in Germany

Musk had also interfered in politics in Germany before the Bundestag election – he had made an election recommendation for the AfD.