Putin is Trump's "Dear Leader". Everybody's his daddy, in fact - as long as he gets his payout. If Trump were as rich as he claims, why would he be futzing around with this measly Scottish golf course or these other chintz $10-20m deals? That's his tell - he's always desperate for any sort of acknowledgment. True billionaires don't do that. As WSJ notes, he probably only clears $160 million a year, and that's before all his exorbitant living expenses.
Many on the Moon Over Alabama left were ecstatic when Putin became the "adult" voice on Syria. Eagerly abetting the rise of the new Russian Black Sea Fleet and influence in the Mideast, while we dumped trillions on stupid wars in the Mideast, the Russians let us pull our own Afghanistan and instead supported the corrupt tyrants to take the oil stakes and next-gen investment & nuclear deals with Israel, UAE, Saudi, etc. backed by some well-placed military action in Ukraine & Syria. According to MoA, Putin was some kind of peacenik (wishing away chemical attacks and troop deployments and battleships providing massive amounts of guns and munitions that Hillary as SoS could only dream of).
Oddly enough, Obama had put together a very successful coalition to defeat ISIS - perhaps his most impressive foreign policy achievement. That success has been followed by an exhausting "so what" as Trump dismantles the coalition and turns the spoils over to Putin/Assad and pivots to the trillion dollar scam being put together by the crooked Mideast players. And yeah, Putin helped orchestrate that mass Syrian exodus to Europe via Erdogan, the one that's created chaos in the EU for 4 years and pushed the Brits to accept Brexit.
Does Trump care? certainly not - it's in his favor. He hates the EU, he hates actual America, he loves Big Brother.and the almighty dollar, however teensy his 30 pieces of silver might look as compensation.