US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday threw some shade at Elon Musk after the tech billionaire announced he had created a political party, suggesting the Tesla and SpaceX boss focus on business and not politics.
On Saturday, the South African-born Musk – an ally-turned-critic of US President Donald Trump – said he was founding the “America Party” to challenge what he called the country’s “one-party system”.
When asked by CNN if Musk’s plan bothered the Trump administration, Bessent offered a thinly veiled criticism of the world’s richest person.
“I believe that the boards of directors at his various companies wanted him to come back and run those companies, which he is better at than anyone,” Bessent said.
“So I imagine that those board of directors did not like this announcement yesterday and will be encouraging him to focus on his business activities, not his political activities.”
Bessent said the principles of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which Musk ran for several months as part of Trump’s drive to slash government spending and jobs, were “very popular”.
But he added: “I think, if you looked at the polling, Elon was not.”
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