Neither man received anything like the kind of nourishment boys need

When it comes to messed-up men, they don't come more messed up than Elon Musk and Donald Trump. That these two found each other was inevitable; top predators in the human food chain are going to bump into one another, and so an uneasy alliance needs to be made.

- Steve Biddulph

But from the first, they are eyeing each other as meat, and sooner or later that chilly fact will surface.

The term “bromance” might amuse the onlooking world, and in this case, that’s the entire world — but the protagonists would never have wasted a second on warm thoughts of the other. It’s just not in their DNA. The pathology that drives each could not be more different. The consensus on Trump’s narcissism diagnosis has been around since his days as a slum landlord. Narcissism is not something you were born with — it arises from traumatically cold mothering and a father figure who is punitive but performance-fixated.