Well, he is just deeply narcissistic and looks for validation, like you say.
I don't know, if there will ever be a moment, that he thinks he's successful enough to earn love.
But he is also an adult. And even though he has his emotional problems, he is a very shitty parent to his trans child. And just forwarding all the hate, because he can't handle his feelings isn't acceptable.
He still has a shitload of money and just with that enough power to move things.
Which is dangerous, when he can influence geo politics that much - see StarLink in war or near war scenarios, and just recently the US election.
I actually would really like to know, why he is feeling so insecure and needs all this validation, and with what success he would say, that's it, now I'm fine.
Will take some time until the contracts are signed/accepted (sorry, missing the right word here), and afterwards to actually fulfill those contracts. 3 months don't even seem enough time for that, imho.
But I don't have much insight, how fast such things usually are processed