Kanye. Mentally ill. Donald Trump. Mentally ill. Elon. Mentally ill.
These feel like three different things, right? The first is kind of clearly exhibiting psychotic-spectrum behaviors; the second maybe has some age-related things going, but also maybe has always been like this; the third one seems to be moving from success to success, to the point where if that's mental illness we need to figure out how to spread it.
Well, the worst case for Musk is that he ends up like Ferdinand de Lesseps. Regardless he doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the other two (who don't deserve to be lumped in with each other either).
Musk is also a clear sociopath, so he is right there.