Trump tried to get France to leave the EU—blowing up 60 years of integration & cooperation—by offering them a better trade deal washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa… 
One reason Trump might prefer dictators to democratically-elected leaders is that dictators only have interests and not values. Trump can’t understand, for example, why France would prioritize its 60-year project to make war impossible again in Europe over a better trade deal.
Between starting a trade war with our allies, trying to break up the EU, and casting serious doubt on his commitment to NATO—not to mention saying Crimea should belong to Russia—it’s hard to imagine Trump carrying out a more Russia-friendly foreign policy.
That’s not even the full list of things Trump has done—in just the last week!—that benefit Russia. He’s also trying to undermine Merkel’s weakening government, and continues to take Putin’s word that they didn’t meddle in the 2016 election.
