See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e... and also

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384265096_The_Legac...

for a commentator who thought Jimmy Carter wasn't real, at least in the second half of the administation. He though the first Space Shuttle mission was blown up by the Russians and that it was androids that walked out of a fake Space Shuttle.

I think leakycap's advice in your last submission is something you should be thinking about.

There are probably lot of old dudes who are like Trump, they just aren't as prominent. Really, a lot of his personality traits and stuff are present to varying degrees in a lot of toxic old dudes who are still meandering around around in their flabby corpses.

For Musk, there are a lot of people like him too, but probably fewer, and you have to remember that the echelon of success he is in has warped him further.