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Elon Musk launches the America Party as feud with Trump escalates

Elon Musk receives a golden key from US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on May 30, 2025 [Nathan Howard/Reuters]

Billionaire Elon Musk has followed through on his pledge to create a new political party in the United States after President Donald Trump signed his controversial budget legislation, the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, into law.

Musk in a post on X on Saturday declared the formation of the “America Party“, to “give back” the people of the US their freedom and challenge what he called the nation’s “one-party system”.

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