Trump wants to model himself on Putin and govern 'in a similar fashion', his former adviser says Donald Trump wants to model himself on Vladimir Putin and "govern his own country in a similar fashion", his former national security adviser has said. Speaking on The World with Yalda Hakim, Fiona Hill explained that Trump and Putin both share the same view of a world "that is divided up among three major powers; Russia, the US and China, with very clear spheres of influence". Hill said Trump wants to "regularise, normalise and reset" the relationship between the US and Russia. "That's very clear, it's been clear since the first presidency of Trump," she explained. "He's always wanted to sit down with Putin and sort out all of the difficulties in the bilateral relationship... there's all kinds of economic and business deals that Trump himself and his immediate circle are very interested in." Hill added that Trump has an interest in forging a "personal relationship" beyond what he already has with Putin. "He wants to extricate the US from its support from Ukraine, he's said that very clearly," she said. "He also wants to pull back from the underpinning of European security and get the Europeans to pick up not just support for Ukraine, but also much more involvement and much more in-depth payment for all of their own security, that's also very clear. "So there is a strategic perspective there." Watch the full interview in the video below.