Tech titan and former special government employee Elon Musk vowed to start a third party to challenge his old boss, President Donald Trump, but insiders tell the Daily Caller that Musk’s plans have faded almost as quickly as they were conceived.
Musk left the federal government frustrated with the MAGA coalition after the passage of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” The bill did not cut spending as much as he preferred and he vowed in a series of tweets to primary anyone who voted in favor of the legislation. Musk said he was creating a new, third party called the “America Party.”
But Musk hasn’t even mentioned the effort in over a month, and insiders told the Daily Caller that it seems Musk has begun to realize just how difficult what he pledged to do would be.
“I think Elon recognizes that the president was right in calling it a ‘ridiculous stunt.’ It would do nothing to advance the issues that Elon cares about — many of which I care about as well, many of which the president has cared about — but it would only create an opportunity for the Democrats to win back the House or the Senate,” James Fishback, a former adviser to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who launched a PAC to counter the third party threat, told the Caller.
