As much as I hate to admit the Russian government being right about anything (when they are in fact) I've heard that Putin called Trump the American Gorbachev. I regret to say there is truth in that. If Gorbachev leaned (for a brief time) into the west to the shock of the Communist parties and KGB agencies, Trump is leaning our federal government to Russian standards by Americans who voted him into power twice in linear combination with a weak Democratic party with no guts and less street smarts. I am disgusted.
https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/the-wall-inner-dictator/