According to O’Reilly, Trump has few close friends. But I read he loved the Yankees and George Steinbrenner was his best friend. They shared many qualities.
...has few close friends...
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This is common to most adults as we age.
People learn to differentiate between acquaintances, friends, and close friends. I seems to me that the more successful someone is, the fewer _real_ friends they have.
Kids have loads of friends, most of them virtual, these days. By middle age, people learn the difference between friends and close friends. In old age, people begin to disengage, which includes jettisoning those acquaintances they once called friends, concentrating on the very few who stood the test of time.
How does that go? “A friend is someone to whom you can admit a murder. A close friend will help you bury the body.” (something like that)
All of us on this planet only have at most a few close friends. If we think we have more than that we will find out different when we hit a rough patch in life and need a true friend.