Musk is on a hiding to nothing, said Philip Bump in The Washington Post. Having worked in the White House for a few months, he has acquired a taste for political power and clearly wants more of it. But he has apparently forgotten "about the part where he also became wildly unpopular".

Elon Musk recently launched the America Party. By learning from Ross Perot's failed third party campaign in 1992, Musk's party could succeed.