Tucker Carlson speaks during a memorial service for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sept. 21, 2025. —Joe Raedle––Getty ImagesAfter recently pulling his years-long support of the GOP, Tucker Carlson has floated the idea of creating a new political party amid his growing rift with President Donald Trump and the broader MAGA coalition.The Conservative commentator, who was once a close ally of Trump, said he’s “going to help build a third party,” insisting “there should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country.”In an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review released Wednesday, Carlson argued that the U.S. government has forgotten about the American people. “If you make sixty thousand dollars a year, you’re degraded,” he said. “No one seems to care. It’s not even a factor.” Specifying that he would not want to be a candidate for any such new party, Carlson argued that Democrats and Republicans have become indistinguishable on key issues.“That’s a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken,” Carlson claimed. “There’s going to be a third party, and I’m going to do everything I can to bring that about.”Two major parties—Democratic and Republican—have dominated U.S. politics and no third party in recent memory has been able to penetrate the two-party system in a meaningful way.Yet, Carlson isn’t the only former MAGA figure to push for a challenge of America’s political system.After his relationship with Trump fractured earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had “formed” a new political party titled the "America Party."The moniker echoed that of his super political action committee (PAC), America PAC, which was founded in 2024 to support Trump’s efforts to return to the White House. The super PAC reportedly spent around $200 million to help elect Trump. Musk’s donations made him Trump’s largest, and most prominent, donor in the 2024 election.More recently, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene—who publicly split from Trump in 2025 and last week said she could no longer support the GOP—also called for change.During a Piers Morgan Uncensored interview on Tuesday, Greene said she was “in talks with people” and that “serious conversations” were underway about creating a third party.“There is a group of us that have literally fought the system, and I think there's a group of us that, if we decide to align, we could launch a true America-focused party that doesn't fall into the traps of Democrats and Republicans, but could align some serious players from the right and the left, and move forward,” she said.Greene also acknowledged the practical challenges involved, noting: “It's difficult to launch a third party, so the reality is this isn't something that gets off the ground in just a couple of campaign cycles.”Both Carlson and Greene were once among the most avid defenders of Trump and his vision, but they have both accused him of failing to uphold his “America first” campaign initiative by embarking on the Iran war.In April, Carlson apologized to his podcast audience for “misleading” them in regards to Trump.Joined on The Tucker Carlson Show by his brother Buckley, a former speechwriter for Trump, Carlson said: “I mean you, and I, and everyone else who supported him, you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him. We were implicated in this for sure.”He continued: “We'll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people, it was not intentional.”The debate around a third party comes as both the Democrats and Republicans search for a way to reconnect with voters.Trump this week announced that the Republican Party will stage a convention in Dallas this September to rally voters before the midterms.Meanwhile, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America have recently emerged triumphant in races across New York and Colorado.