12 h. ago Trump calls Elon Musk’s new political party ‘ridiculous’ and ‘confusing’

President Donald Trump slammed Elon Musk’s plan to launch a new political party, calling it “ridiculous” and insisting the US has always been a “two-party system.” (6 July)

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19 h. ago Trump calls Musk a ‘train wreck’ as feud escalates over third party

Billionaire’s vow to set up a rival political movement brings formerly close relationship to new low

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23 h. ago Trump calls Elon Musk a 'train wreck' as he breaks silence to taunt billionaire's 'ridiculous' plan to break up two

President Donald Trump taunted Elon Musk's new third party as 'ridiculous' and said it would 'never work' as the world's richest man carried out his threat to challenge the political system. 

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24 h. ago Trump says Musk is ‘off the rails’ and calls his new political party ‘ridiculous’

US president railed against his former adviser online after tech billionaire said he will start and bankroll America partyDonald Trump called Elon Musk’s decision to start and bankroll a new US political party “ridiculous” on Sunday. “Third parties have never worked, so he can have fun with it but I think it’s ridiculous,” the president told reporters traveling with him back to the White House from his New Jersey golf club.He then elaborated, at great length, in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social. “I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” the president wrote. “He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States”. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Musk should stay out of politics, treasury secretary says after ‘America’ party news

Scott Bessent suggests Musk focus on business a day after tech billionaire announced his new political partyElon Musk should focus on running his companies and keep himself out of politics, Donald Trump’s treasury secretary said on Sunday, a day after the world’s richest person – and a former White House adviser – announced the formation of a new political party.“The principles of Doge were very popular – I think if you looked at the polling Elon was not,” Scott Bessent said on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to the so-called “department of government efficiency” that Musk temporarily headed after Trump’s second presidency began in January. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Elon Musk calls Trump’s big bill ‘utterly insane and destructive’ as Senate debates

Passing the package, Musk said, would be ‘political suicide’ for the Republican partyThe billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Saturday criticized the latest version of Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive.“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on Saturday as the Senate was scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside the end of Trump's explosive feud with Elon Musk as Tesla boss makes olive branch call to president

Elon Musk's extraordinary 3 am post that admitted he went 'too far' followed his Monday phone call to President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

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3 w. ago Unstoppable force loses battle with immovable object: Elon bows to Trump

Four days into a public feud between the world’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person, I declare Musk the loserElon Musk and Donald Trump are no longer friends. Tension between the two exploded into public view in the middle of last week, with each leveling sharp barbs at the other. Four days into the public feud between the world’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person, though, I declare Musk the loser. An unstoppable force has lost its battle with an immovable object.From my colleagues Hugo Lowell and Andrew Roth: On Thursday, Elon Musk called for Donald Trump’s impeachment and mocked his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the US president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk’s companies, in an extraordinary social media feud that erupted between the former allies. The direct shots at Trump were the latest twist in the public showdown over a Republican spending bill that Musk had criticized. Conti...

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4 w. ago Elon Musk’s father says Tesla boss called Donald Trump ‘evil’ and a ‘crook’

Elon Musk’s father has claimed his son branded Donald Trump “evil” and a “crook”.

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last month Donald Trump and Elon Musk spat concerns Republicans as calls for truce increase

Republicans fear the potential consequences of a prolonged spat between the pair.

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