So another theme that's coming out in the tapes is that when he's had to deal with people who really are stronger than him, he appeases or admires.
This is just the journalists' analysis, but they point to how in military school he pretty quickly switched from being the defiant one to being proud of slotting in as high as he could under the greater powers.
And also how Ivana stood up to him and then he married her. (Before she got older and had to be upgraded...)
They posit that, having grown up in his father's environment of constant bullying, meeting a bigger power is homely for him even while he throws tantrums about it.
Although IMO opinion you might also say this is standard fare for bullies: dominate the weaker, ingratiate yourself once someone's been proved stronger.
Anyway, I suspect that will be relevant for his relationships with May and Putin.