But who actually did rise to power through posting? Trump inherited money, and spent years as a strange real-estate and projects guy (casinos, university), like Musk, who had more smarts for his projects, and so on.

Well, Hitler and Szálasi (crazy Hungarian Nazi guy) and Lenin/Stalin come to mind as the closest actually, so maybe that's where OSC got the idea.

Hm, now I'm curious who was the youngest elected head of state...

edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_state_leade...