{"id":374,"date":"2025-07-08T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:51:32","slug":"former-trump-spokesperson-musk-new-party-has-no-natural-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/former-trump-spokesperson-musk-new-party-has-no-natural-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump spokesperson: Musk new party has no &#8216;natural base&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nxs-video-iframe\" data-frame-src=\"10868592\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" layout=\"responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/redir1.thehill.com\/nxs-video-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\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n\t\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former Trump White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said Monday that tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5386557-musk-announces-america-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;America Party&#8221;<\/a> will struggle to maintain its base without ties to traditional political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusk has enough money to keep it going for a long time, and he may have a good candidate here or there, but for the most part, you know \u2014 remember Jesse Ventura when he won governor of Minnesota?&#8221; Gidley, who served in Trump&#8217;s first White House and on his 2020 campaign, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCSTOnatbcU\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NCSTOnatbcU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">during an appearance<\/a> on Newsmax. &#8220;He had no natural base from the Republicans or the Democrats in his Legislature, so nobody supported him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it\u2019s a weird place to be in,\u201d he told the hosts of &#8220;American Agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla CEO threatened multiple times to establish a new political party following his <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5335921-musk-trump-fight-epstein-files\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5335921-musk-trump-fight-epstein-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public spat<\/a> with President Trump over the tax and spending megabill \u2014 which was <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5384512-trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5384512-trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed into law<\/a> by the president July 4. After posting <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5385824-elon-musk-donald-trump-third-party-gop-megabill\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5385824-elon-musk-donald-trump-third-party-gop-megabill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several polls<\/a> on his social platform X, Musk announced he would officially launch the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5387883-elon-musk-launches-america-party\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5387883-elon-musk-launches-america-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;America Party&#8221;<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also decided to work across affiliations to ramp up support for the new faction. Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and others have already <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5389367-andrew-yang-musk-third-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reached out<\/a> to the tech giant to join his proposed third party \u2014 set to launch its first bid in 2026 during the midterm elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited for anyone who wants to move on from the duopoly, and I\u2019m happy to help give someone a sense of what the path looks like,\u201d Yang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/07\/musk-and-yang-have-connected-on-the-billionaires-third-party-threat-00441702?utm_source=semafor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Politico<\/a> in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A page for the new \u201cAmerica Party\u201d \u2014 which comes after Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5377671-elon-musk-threatens-republicans-over-trump-megabill\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5377671-elon-musk-threatens-republicans-over-trump-megabill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened to back primary challengers<\/a> against vulnerable Republican lawmakers who supported the massive bill \u2014 said it was \u201cbuilt on common sense not consultants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5380120-trump-musk-fight-over-bill\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5380120-trump-musk-fight-over-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reignited his feud<\/a> with Trump after lawmakers advanced the legislation, said earlier this week that he formed the party to \u201cgive you back your freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know where this goes. It\u2019ll come to fruition. Whether it has any longevity or not, you know, remains to be seen,\u201d Gidley told Newsmax.<\/p>\n<p>Key Trump allies, including Steve Bannon, have <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5386257-bannon-musk-america-party\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5386257-bannon-musk-america-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">railed against<\/a> the idea and suggested it would quickly fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foul, the buffoon. Elmo the Mook, formerly known as Elon Musk, Elmo the Mook. He\u2019s today, in another smear, and this \u2014 only a foreigner could do this, think about it \u2014 he\u2019s got up on, he\u2019s got up on Twitter right now, a poll about starting an America Party. A non-American starting an America Party,\u201d Bannon said Friday on his \u201cWar Room\u201d podcast. \u201cNo, brother, you\u2019re not an American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk is a U.S. citizen who was born in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5387114-trump-criticizes-musk-third-party\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5387114-trump-criticizes-musk-third-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took a swing at Musk<\/a> following his announcement, saying he&#8217;s gone &#8220;completely off the rails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe even wants to start a Third Political Party, despite the fact that they have never succeeded in the United States \u2013 The System seems not designed for them,\u201d he wrote Sunday on Truth Social. <\/p>\n<p>The president added, \u201cThe one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION &#038; CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said Monday that tech billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s new &#8220;America Party&#8221; will struggle to maintain its base without ties to traditional political parties. \u201cMusk has enough money to keep it going for a long time, and he may have a good candidate here or there, but for the most part, you know \u2014 remember Jesse Ventura when he won governor of Minnesota?&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakeupknotts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}