This is my opinion, I don’t have anything to back it up with but I believe the reason Trump “admires” Putin is pure jealousy. You see Putin has had a whole country to loot, he and his oligarchs have stolen everything they can lay their hands on. The reason there is nothing happening in the Russian economy is the knowledge that once a company is successful it will be stolen by the kleptocracy so why bother to create something so it can be taken from you. Trump wants his own country to loot and this explains many of his actions, from who his cabinet choices are to his attempt to shutdown the press who may expose him and his refusal to divest. There is a lot of money to be made before Trump becomes richer than Putin.