it maps closely to an unresolved negative mother complex coupled with compensatory authoritarian submission and idealized masculine projection.

That's why he resents and minimizes women as a result of his mother's sudden abandonment of him as a toddler after she had his younger brother and her health spiraled out of control, landing her in a hospital and sanitariums for several years of his early life. The mother wound is deep and his father was cold, manipulative, and berated all of his children for not living up to his expectations. trump no longer had his mother to comfort and explain his confusion and upset that she was missing, while his father basically ignored him (as well as all of the other children). Without a mother figure anymore at a critical age he developed a "mother wound" and never developed properly emotionally. He has a love hate relationship with women where he has to conquer them on the one hand to get the missing attention he needed from the first woman in his life but OTOH, has to lord over and control them, eventually discarding them once he had the control.

At the same time, he is constantly chasing strong-men types for their approval to feel confident inside because he he weak, scared, and unsure of himself because of the profound damage that both of his parents inflicted on him as a child. Strong-men being his pal temporarily gives him what he lacks internally. That's why he rejects friendly allies that instead, he sees as powerless and seeks the approval of men he sees as strong, confident, smart, and a "winner". He has no use for a "loser" because internally, he fears BEING a loser. Never being a loser is something his father pounded into him, making his see any loss as him being an utter failure.

I don't necessarily think that he is sexually attracted to the despots he seeks out, but he IS attracted to what he sees as a strong, powerful, accomplished man whose friendship let's that stuff rub off onto him.

If he wasnt SUCH a dangerous monster, I'd feel sorry for him, though I do pity the little boy he once was being broken and abandoned for nothing that HE did