'To give you back your freedom': Elon Musk launches new America Party to challenge US' ‘one-party system’

Amid feud with Trump, Musk officially launches America Party

Tesla CEO and tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that  he has launched a new political party to challenge what he calls America’s “one-party system.”

This move followed a fall-out with the president after Elon Musk, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led a Republican push to cut spending and shrink the federal workforce.

Once Trump’s biggest political donor and ally in the 2024 election, Musk publicly broke with the president over his “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which he condemned as a “disgusting abomination”.

“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom” Musk posted on his X account.

By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!

When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy. Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. https://t.co/9K8AD04QQN — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2025

“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” Musk further added.

In another post, the billionaire said, “The way we’re going to crack the uniparty system is by using a variant of how Epaminondas shattered the myth of Spartan invincibility at Leuctra: Extremely concentrated force at a precise location on the battlefield."

Musk posted a poll on US Independence Day in which he asked that whether respondents “want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system" that has dominated US politics for some two centuries.

Around 1.2 million responses were received on this survey. “By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!" he posted on Saturday.