世界首富特斯拉亿万富翁唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)和埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)再次进行公开侮辱,此前他表示将创建一个新的政党。
在与总统分裂后的几周内,马斯克一直在提出建立第三个政党的想法,在特朗普全面减税和支出法案通过后,马斯克在周末重新点燃了这一努力受到指责超过其估计的影响,增加了数万亿美元的国债。
“说到让我们的国家因浪费而破产“贪污,我们生活在一党制,而不是民主制度中,”马斯克周六在X上发帖称今天,美国党的成立是为了还给你们自由。"
特朗普周日抨击这个想法是“荒谬的”。
“我认为成立第三方只会增加混乱,”特朗普告诉记者。“它似乎真的是为两个政党开发的。第三方从来没工作过,他可以拿这个找乐子,但我觉得很可笑。”
总统在社交媒体上更进一步,直接抨击了马斯克。
特朗普在他的保守社交媒体平台Truth Social上写道:“我很难过地看到埃隆·马斯克完全‘出轨’,在过去五周内基本上成了一辆火车残骸。”“他甚至想成立第三个政党,尽管他们在美国从未成功过——这个制度似乎不是为他们设计的。”
特朗普以与马斯克的强大联盟开始了他的第二个任期,马斯克被任命为“特别政府雇员”,负责监督政府效率部,这是一个旨在削减政府支出的新成立的实体。
马斯克于5月下旬离开政府,此后不久,马斯克就开始批评特朗普的巨额账单。马斯克表示,每一位支持这项立法的立法者都应该“羞愧地低下头”,并一度对支持这项立法的共和党人发出威胁,称他们“明年将失去初选,如果这是我在这个地球上做的最后一件事。”
川普在他的社交媒体帖子中解释了他们在立法中对电动汽车授权的分歧,以及为什么他撤销了对马斯克助手领导美国国家航空航天局的提名。
特朗普声称,马斯克告诉他,他对他结束购买电动汽车的补贴“没有问题”。
“再也没有命令了。两年来,我一直致力于此,老实说,当埃隆给予我完全且毫无疑问的支持时,我问他是否知道我将终止电动汽车授权——我的每一次演讲和每一次谈话都提到了这一点。他说他对此没有问题——我非常惊讶!”特朗普写道。
总统接着说,他认为不让马斯克的助手贾里德·伊萨克曼领导美国国家航空航天局符合美国公众的最佳利益,因为他们与航天工业有联系。
“我还认为,当美国国家航空航天局是埃隆公司生活中如此重要的一部分时,由埃隆的一个非常亲密的朋友来掌管美国国家航空航天局是不合适的,他是从事航天事业的。我的首要职责是保护美国公众!”特朗普写道。
马斯克在回应特朗普的长篇帖子时对X进行了卸载,并回复道:“什么是真实社交?”抨击总统的法案背叛了总督的意图。
在一篇回复特朗普真实社交信息截图的帖子中,马斯克同意敦促副总统JD Vance“确保总统掌握事实真相”的评论。
马斯克随后回应道:“如果@DOGE只是打算增加5万亿美元的债务,那他到底有什么意义??"
尽管争论激烈,马斯克一再威胁要组建一个新的政党,但尚不清楚马斯克是否已经开始通过向联邦选举委员会提交文件来创建自己的政党。
马斯克曾表示,他的政党将目标定为“仅2或3个参议院席位和8至10个众议院选区”,他认为这“足以成为有争议法律的决定性一票。”
马斯克将其比作“埃帕米农达如何通过在战场上的精确位置使用极其集中的力量,粉碎了斯巴达在Leuctra不可战胜的神话”。
在另一篇帖子中,马斯克详细说明了尽管支持2028年的总统候选人“并非不可能”,但该党“未来12个月的重点是众议院和参议院”。
Trump and Musk feud escalates after Musk floats creating new political party
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are once again trading public insults after the Tesla billionaire, the world's richest man, said he will create a new political party.
Musk, who has been floating the idea of creating a third political party for weeks in the wake of his split with the president, reignited the push over the weekend after the passage of Trump's sweeping tax cut and spending bill -- which Muskrailed againstover its estimated impact adding trillions to the national debt.
"When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste& graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy," Musk posted on X on Saturday. "Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."
Trump on Sunday slammed the idea as "ridiculous."
"I think starting a third party just adds to confusion," Trump told reporters. "It really seems to have been developed for two parties. Third parties have never worked, so he can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous."
The president went further in a social media post, lashing out at Musk directly.
"I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks," Trump wrote on his conservative social media platform, Truth Social. "He even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States -- The System seems not designed for them."
Trump began his second term with a strong alliance with Musk, who was appointed a "special government employee" to oversee the Department of Government Efficiency, a newly-formed entity aimed at slashing government spending.
Musk left the administration in late May, and soon after Musk began to criticize Trump's megabill. Musk said every lawmaker who supported the legislation should "hang their head in shame" and at one point issued a threat to Republicans supporting it, saying they "will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth."
Trump, in his social media post, explained their differences on electric vehicle mandates in the legislation and why he pulled the nomination of Musk's associate to lead NASA.
Trump claimed that Musk told him he had "no problems" with him ending subsidies for EV purchases.
"No more EV Mandate. I have campaigned on this for two years and, quite honestly, when Elon gave me his total and unquestioned Endorsement, I asked him whether or not he knew that I was going to terminate the EV Mandate - It was in every speech I made, and in every conversation I had. He said he had no problems with that - I was very surprised!" Trump wrote.
The president went on to argue that he felt that it was in the best interest of the American public not to have Musk associate Jared Isaacman lead NASA due to their space industry connections.
"I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon's corporate life. My Number One charge is to protect the American Public!" Trump wrote.
Musk unloaded on X in response to Trump's lengthy post, mocking it by replying, "What's Truth Social?" and slamming the president's bill as a betrayal of DOGE's purpose.
In one post replying to a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social message, Musk agreed with a comment urging Vice President JD Vance to "make sure the President has his facts straight."
Musk then responded, writing: "What the heck was the point of @DOGE if he's just going to increase the debt by $5 trillion??"
Despite the heated back-and-forth and Musk's repeated threats to form a new party, it's unclear whether Musk has begun the formal process of creating his own party by filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission.
Musk has said that his political party would target "just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts," which he believes "would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws."
Musk compared it to how "Epaminondas shattered the myth of Spartan invincibility at Leuctra" by using "Extremely concentrated force at a precise location on the battlefield."
In another post, Musk detailed that while backing a candidate for president in 2028 was "not out of the question," the party's focus "for the next 12 months is on the House and the Senate."