It's a match made in Twitter Heaven — or in Twitter Hell, depending on your perspective. Martin Shkreli, the indicted, sued and widely vilified pharmaceutical bad boy, has endorsed the presidential candidacy of fellow Twitter fan Donald Trump.

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Shkreli's embrace of Trump came, naturally, on their favorite social media platform, and despite that The Donald last year called Shkreli "a spoiled brat," "nothing," and a "zero," among other choice words.

"I haven't been called by the Trump camp. I support him vs. Hillary," Shkreli tweeted to his more than 117,000 followers on Thursday, the same day Trump officially locked up the Repubilcan presidential nomination. Here's the full tweet: Tweet



Shkreli soon afterward followed that up with a Trump-worthy insult to people who don't share his ostensible affection for the Manhattan real-estate mogul and reality TV star. Tweet

But he also tweeted, in reference to Trump's campaign slogan, that he already thinks America is great: Tweet It's not clear whether Shkreli's endorsement of Trump is genuine or just a stunt to stay in the public eye. Trump, for his part, did not respond to Shkreli on Twitter. But a parody account about Trump did, tweeting to Shrekli, "Thank you! Together we will #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!" That prompted Shrekli to write back: Tweet

Martin Shkreli, former Chief Executive Officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals Getty Images

Shkreli first came to widespread public attention last September, when it was revealed that the new firm he founded and ran, Turing Pharmaceuticals, hiked by more than 5,000 percent the cost of a decades-old anti-parasitic drug used to treat HIV patients, pregnant women and babies. The massive price increase of the medication, Daraprim, and Shkreli's brazen defense of it, made him a focus of growing anger among the public and elected officials about the rising price of prescription drugs.

Trump was the first Republican presidential contender to comment on the brouhaha and he did it in a typically bombastic way.

"He looks like a spoiled brat to me," Trump said of Shkreli at the time. "He's a hedge fund guy. "I think it's disgusting what he did." "That guy is nothing. He's zero. He's nothing. He ought to be ashamed of himself," Trump said, according to a contemperaneous story in The Hill.