If you're the richest man in the world you wouldn't care about "friends" or "facts'. With your money and subsequently influence you are able to create your own and by being the owner of the most influential media your own reality and facts and buy friends. Eventually you buy the mainstream or even create the mainstream everybody has to follow or fail.
But he can't buy character, honesty or honor or being a philanthropist. He leaves behind him a trail of slime by bootlickers.