Trump ‘saddened' to watch Musk ‘go off the rails' after he vowed to launch political party prez says will cause ‘chaos'
The US president slammed Musk's new 'America Party', arguing third political parties never succeed in the US and only create "complete and total disruption and chaos".
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It comes after Musk cited a poll in which he asked whether respondents 'want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system' that has dominated US politics for two centuries.
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