Maybe Elon Musk is more interested in planets than politics.
The mega-billionaire founder of Tesla, owner of X, and the genius behind the pioneering company SpaceX caused a huge stir in early July when he announced the birth of a new third party on the American political scene.
The question now is, whatever became of that?
Musk first broached the subject in a July 4 post on X when he launched a poll to find out what his followers thought. The results weren’t even close.
By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!
When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.
Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. https://t.co/9K8AD04QQN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2025
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” Musk wrote in a July 5 post.
“Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
Naturally, the post caused a splash.
Elon Musk is one of the few names in politics that can even come close to competing with the star power of President Donald Trump. So the idea that he could be mounting an actual challenge to Trump’s Republican Party would have been news indeed.
But as The Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese wrote in an article published Monday, there appears to be nothing in the way of follow-through coming yet.
“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,” Reese wrote.
At the time of Musk’s announcement, Trump branded the idea of a third party “ridiculous.”
NEW: Trump Responds to Elon Musk Starting a Third Party When Asked By a Reporter: “Third parties have never really worked. So he can have fun with it, but I think it’s ridiculous.” pic.twitter.com/qTARvvE1Jx
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) July 6, 2025
Musk, of course, has other things on his plate besides politics.
As USA Today reported last week, Musk’s SpaceX could be nearing a new test flight for its Starship rocket, a 400-foot spacecraft the newspaper called “crucial” to future space ambitions, for Musk and the country as a whole.
Musk is a very public booster of manned trips to Mars — extraterrestrial exploration is vital “for the long-term survival of civilization,” he said, USA Today reported.
Humanity is essentially faced with the prospect of branching out or dying out.
One path means “we stay on Earth forever and then there will be some sort of eventual extinction event,” he wrote in a 2017 paper published by the journal New Space.
According to the electronics news-centric website CNET, Musk told the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, in 2013 that he wants to die on Mars — “just not on impact.”
There are also very earthly concerns for Musk to consider about starting a party that would compete almost exclusively with Republicans for support.
(Besides Musk’s famously libertarian inclinations — free speech, gun rights, etc. — his popularity among liberals is so low it can be measured in the number of Tesla vehicles damaged and dealerships attacked by leftists.)
According to Reese’s report, a former Department of Government Efficiency consultant who launched a political action committee specifically to counter the threat of a Musk third party said Musk has realized that helping Democrats might not be so helpful to his own interests.
“Make no mistake, there is a real threat to both Elon and to his businesses if the Democrats were to regain control,” James Fishback, CEO of the Arizona investment firm Azoria, told Reese.
“That’s a message that I shared privately with Tesla executives, and that may have been part of the reason why he attenuated his positioning on that.”
Musk can be unpredictable, of course. He’s a generational genius, and geniuses make their own decisions and forge their own paths.
But for now, at least, it appears his third party is going to stay in the background of the political stage.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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