Impossible to understand our Orange Pharaoh without understand with Putin did to Ukraine. He installed his stooge to its highest office, Yanukovych, then used him to stop opposition to Russian theft of Ukrainian land and the murder of many of its citizens. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych
In America, Putin's stooge will weaken America by trying to cut down NATO, mock all American institutions and security organizations, and in general, sow dissension. He will toss many bones to Republicans in Congress in the form of tax cuts to the rich and the shut down of programs for the poor. Trump isn't playing a long game, he most likely expects to be in Moscow to live before his four years is over. But by then Putin will own Ukraine, and America will be in shambles.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon