Putin retains all the characteristics you describe. To understand him you must realize he is patriot of the Soviet Union and his strategy is right in line with Stalin's "Salami Tactics" of the early Cold War.
As far as Trump is concerned, Putin most likely considers him a "useful idiot".
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