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Trump called Elon Musk’s plans yesterday to launch a new “ridiculous” political party, telling journalists that the effort of the former White House advisor and Tesla CEO “will probably never work”.
“I think it is ridiculous to start a third. We have a huge success with the Republican Party,” said Trump, a few minutes before getting on Air Force One. “It has always been a bipartite system, and I think that starting a third added to confusion.”
Trump sharpened his attack on the billionaire in a social post of truth last night, repeating an assertion that the recent Musk opposition to the Republican Party stems from the elimination of a tax credit for electric vehicles in the recent expenditure bill.
“I am saddened to see Elon Musk go completely” out of the rails “, becoming essentially a wreck in the past five weeks,” wrote Trump.
Last month, Musk said he would launch a third party, named “America Party”, if the Republicans managed to adopt legislation to finance Trump’s agenda, which they did last week. The CEO of Tesla had made its doors against the bill for months due to its estimated increase of $ 1 billion in the national deficit.
“What is the point of @doge if he was just going to increase the debt by 5 billions of dollars ??” wrote Musk in response to an article commenting on Trump’s social message. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation will increase the deficit by more than 3 dollars of dollars over the next decade.
After the adoption of the bill, Musk announced on Saturday that he was going to move forward with the idea after a survey that he shared on X found that the majority of respondents supported the company.
“When it comes to going bankrupt our country with waste and transplants, we live in a single party system, not a democracy,” wrote Musk on X. “Today, the America party is formed to make your freedom.”
Trump in his remarks to journalists yesterday said that the new party training would probably be ineffective.
“Third parties have never worked, so he can have fun with it, but I think it’s ridiculous,” said Trump.
