There's one thing that informs the totality of Trump's reality. He needs it for his crippled psyche and being:

Money

It's the field he plays on and the only thing he respects.

Here are two murderous psychopathic dictators with more money than him. Trump wants in on that. So these guys own him. He's their stooge. Their waterboy.Their bitch. Period.

Here's their reaction to Trump as POTUS and all the pure satisfaction and unfathomable amount of WIN that gift keeps giving them: