"Do you want a little makeup? We'll get you a little makeup," said President Donald Trump to the world’s richest person, Elon Musk.
That, at least, was Trump's account of the moments before Musk went on camera in the Oval Office to end his term as a "special government employee" last May, sporting a black eye that he blamed on his five-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii.