MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell accused President-elect Donald Trump of publicly belittling Elon Musk in a “twisted” bid to demonstrate power over him while using “the richest person in the world” as a symbolic prop to threaten any potential opponents.

Trump has a “twisted psyche” which means that “at some point” he has to “humiliate everyone around him to demonstrate his dominance over them,” noted O’Donnell, who earlier this week suggested Trump is currently degrading his campaign’s financial booster on multiple levels.