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Elon Musk announces to create his political training
Elon Musk announced on Saturday the creation of the “Party of America”.
Elon Musk, in the oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2025.
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Billionaire Elon Musk, a former close ally of Donald Trump, with whom he recently scraped, announced on Saturday the creation of his political training, the “America party”.
“Today, the party of America is created to make your freedom,” he wrote on his social network X.
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Wind standing against the Budget bill of the American president, whom he accuses of digging public debt, Elon Musk had promised in recent days of launching his own political party if the text was adopted.
“Ruin our country by waste and corruption”
Originally from South Africa, Elon Musk will not be able to present himself to a future presidential election, the candidates having to be born in American territory.
He had launched a survey on this idea on his social network X Friday, the day of the American national holiday and the promulgation with great fanfare of the “great and beautiful law” of Donald Trump.
“By a report of two against one, you want a new political party, and you will have it!”, Launched the tech magnate on Saturday, while 65% of some 1.2 million voters answered “yes” to the question of whether they wanted the “America party” to the day. “When it comes to ruining our country by waste and corruption, we live in a single party system, not in a democracy,” said Elon Musk.
Former close ally of Donald Trump, whose campaign he funded during the presidential election in 2024, Elon Musk had been responsible for slashing in the expenses of the federal state with his Doge commission before the two billionaires blur in May in the face of the world.
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