The Trump bit may be revisionist (I admittedly hadn't heard of that comparison before), but the Musk bit goes pretty far back, here's a 2011 article about it: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/08/robert-down...

And, having been a kid at the time, I remember excitedly talking with friends about how Elon Musk was the real life Tony Stark. We were young enough to be insulated from his controveries, and to not truly appreciate how impossible the Iron Man suit was.