His actions may help you to discover the principal reason he has gained the cult-like following for. He tends to implement core points of his electoral programme, be it stopping wars or ditching excessive parasitic bureaucracy. Of course, not always he succeeds; during the first tenure, the counteraction from old guard Republican warmongers and lifelong swamplanders was fierce. But he tries sincerely, to the letter. The overwhelming majority of contemporary Western politicians don't give a nickel about their promises; even worse is unelected European Union bureaucratic camarilla.
Look at Ukraine or Gaza: in short time since his inauguration, Trump has already employed more sensible decisions than Biden, Blinken, Nuland, or Sullivan combined during four years of their miserable activity. For example, he denounced the Bidenist dysfunctional policy of denying Russia official talks and meets on the governmental level.
Thanks to War by Woodward, we know that such a pharisaical premise didn’t in any way preclude talks behind the curtain, especially in earlier times of internal strife in Russia (to wit, Prigogin’s mutiny), when Putin’s power could be seriously shaken, had the AFU been set free. But they hadn’t been.