Dotard Trumpf is a "Soviet leaders' dream" according to a leading Russian scholar. Writing in a weekly Russian newspaper, the scholar praised the actions of Trumpf for "driving a wedge" between the US and "the European part of NATO." Other Russian news outlets echoed these sentiments. Moskovsky Komsomolets described the actions of Trumpf as "destroying the world created by American liberals." In another newspaper, Russian Duma Senator Alexei Pushkov wrote: "None of the steps Trumpf has taken threatens Russia's interests directly."