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Here is the crux of it the way I see it, there is a serious limitation to how much Trump or any president can sabotage a national effort to aid a broadly popular country in a defensive war such as Ukraine. It is too broadly popular in the US and the narrative is just too twisted for shitty conservatives to justify to their cult even as mindless as the cultists are. It just kind of goes against the whole idea of dressing up in cosplay outfits and pretending you are an isolationist who only cares about their own backyard and smashing communism when Trump tells you oh no now Putin is daddy actually!.
Suddenly fantasizing about all that violence and oppression of others just isn't as fun anymore, it takes the spark out of it a bit.
Trump cannot openly and continually flaunt sabotaging Ukraine, he pays a political price each time he openly does it even if it is small. With this in mind, that every open admission that he has sabotaged Ukraine yet again for Daddy has to be paid for by some other political manuevering to counteract the blowback, I would say there is actually practically very little political maneuvering Trump can do to further screw over Ukraine any harder than he already is.
Every time he has a tiny bit of political capital on the Ukraine war with the US people he spends it by undermining Ukraine right up until he experiences enough backlash to disguise his sabotage again.
TL;DR I earnestly do no believe there would be any difference