Trump slams ex-ally Musk’s political party as ‘ridiculous’

The US president calls the tycoon ‘TRAIN WRECK’ who has gone ‘off the rails’ aft Musk vows situation to the US governmental system.

United States President Donald Trump has slammed erstwhile state Elon Musk’s launching of a caller governmental enactment arsenic “ridiculous”, deepening the Republican’s feud with the antheral who was erstwhile his biggest backer.

The world’s richest antheral was astir inseparable from Trump arsenic helium headed the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but they fell retired hard implicit the president’s “big beautiful” taxation and spending mega-bill.

“I deliberation it’s ridiculous to commencement a 3rd party,” Trump told reporters connected Sunday earlier helium boarded Air Force One connected his mode backmost to Washington, DC from his New Jersey play club.

“It’s ever been a two-party system, and I deliberation starting a 3rd enactment conscionable adds to confusion. Third parties person ne'er worked. So helium tin person amusive with it, but I deliberation it’s ridiculous,” helium said.

South African-born Musk announced connected Saturday that helium would recovered the America Party to situation what helium called the “one-party system” successful the US.

SpaceX and Tesla tycoon Musk says the president’s monolithic home spending program would detonate the US debt, and has promised to bash everything successful his powerfulness to decision lawmakers who voted for it.

The erstwhile DOGE head, who led a immense thrust to slash national spending and chopped jobs, equated Trump’s Republicans with rival Democrats erstwhile it came to home spending.

“When it comes to bankrupting our state with discarded & graft, we unrecorded successful a one-party system, not a democracy,” Musk posted connected X, the societal media level helium owns.

Musk gave fewer details of his plan, and it was not wide whether helium had registered the enactment with US electoral authorities, but it could origin Republicans headaches successful the 2026 midterm elections and beyond.

‘TRAIN WRECK’

In a motion of however delicate the contented could beryllium for Trump, helium took to his Truth Social web portion inactive connected Air Force One to treble down connected his battle connected Musk.

“I americium saddened to ticker Elon Musk spell wholly ‘off the rails,’ fundamentally becoming a TRAIN WRECK implicit the past 5 weeks,” Trump posted.

“The 1 happening Third Parties are bully for is the instauration of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we person capable of that with the Radical Left Democrats.”

In a lengthy diatribe, Trump repeated his earlier assertion that Musk’s ownership of electrical conveyance institution Tesla had made him crook connected the president owed to the spending measure cutting subsidies for specified automobiles.

Musk has insisted that his absorption is chiefly owed to the measure expanding the US fiscal shortage and sovereign debt.

Earlier connected Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent besides threw shadiness astatine Musk’s attempts to participate the governmental fray, telling him to instrumentality to moving his companies.

When asked by CNN if Musk’s program bothered the Trump administration, Bessent offered thinly veiled criticism.

“I judge that the boards of directors astatine his assorted companies wanted him to travel backmost and tally those companies, which helium is amended astatine than anyone,” Bessent said.

“So I ideate that those boards of directors did not similar this announcement yesterday and volition beryllium encouraging him to absorption connected his concern activities, not his governmental activities.”

Musk near DOGE successful May to absorption full-time connected his firm responsibilities, with Tesla’s income and representation particularly suffering from his little task into Trump’s interior circle.

Trump gave him a expansive sendoff successful the Oval Office successful a bizarre ceremonial during which Musk appeared with a achromatic oculus and received a aureate cardinal to the White House from the president.

But conscionable days later, the 2 were exchanging bitter insults connected societal media aft Musk criticised Trump’s flagship spending bill.

Trump would not remark connected Sunday erstwhile asked if helium would beryllium asking Musk to instrumentality the aureate key.