ELON’S FOOLISH IDEA
Has Elon Musk gone off the deep end yet again?
Until a few days ago, we thought he had established a cautious truce with President Trump, having apologized for all the awful things he said about the man who had given him a major role in government, estranging their relationship significantly.
Ostensibly, it was all supposedly over the passage in Congress of Trump’s budget, known as the Big Beautiful Bill.
It’s true that federal spending did increase with its passage and should not have, but it wasn’t a massive expansion. It contained critical tax cuts, money for immigration enforcement, money for defense and other important spending.
Nevertheless, Musk was incensed, as if this was the first time he ever heard of it, his ego wounded because it seemingly negated his DOGE work (it didn’t so long as DOGE remains in place as it does), and now he says he wants to start a third party, presumably to challenge Trump’s party as well as the leftists.
He held a snap poll on X, which apparently was affirmed by a lot of people in India, and got immediately to work on his federal filings, some of which don’t make sense at all:
“Could @elonmusk please clarify?
I’m struggling to understand why this is based in California, the most liberal, anti-American state.
No one involved appears to be American.
Bank of America is the most anti-American financial corporation there is. Elon himself has ejected… pic.twitter.com/D55Bxis5bu
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) July 6, 2025”
POTUS’ response:
And in this response, Trump reminded all of us who voted for him just why he was the right candidate to support.
Musk’s idea is utterly bad, given that it’s bound to hand more victories to far-left Democrats who will turn on the money spigots like no one’s business. We all remember Ross Perot with his Texas-style ideas for cutting the budget. We liked Ross, but his 1992 third-party candidacy brought us Bill Clinton.
We’d get the same thing under Musk, even as he says he has a new plan that would target just one or two Senate seats at a time.
Politics doesn’t work that way — he may have big support in some places and little support in others. They don’t always align with where single Senate seats are. Still, if he wins a seat or two, he could create a Democrat majority in no time, given the narrowness of our legislative divisions.
It would be a disaster. And no, he wouldn’t get the budget cutting he wants — it would take decades, and much longer if a one-party blue nation becomes entrenched and jails him, which is likely what would really happen.
He would have been far more constructive if he had put his money and support into a balanced budget amendment, or focused on primarying RINOs with pork barrel political priorities in order to replace them with Rand Paul-style Republicans. That could make a real difference in how GOP bills come to pass.
Instead, he let his ego get the better of him, announcing this useless new party that is bound to fail with the public, particularly the MAGA public – while Musk himself has seen a drop in his public approval numbers since his DOGE masterwork. That won’t build his new third party.
I can’t see this taking off at all. What was he thinking?
One can only hope this bad idea is over soon, withered by lack of public interest, because he is wasting his time and money, both of which he could better spend on electing better people to Congress, Mars travel, and tech innovation instead.
Monica Showalter is a journalist whose analyses have appeared in Forbes, the Asia Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, and American Thinker.