Donald Trump is like a Suzy Talks-a-Lot. He has a couple key catchphrases and a smug expression stuck on his face.

He says “fake news,” “winning” and “billions and billions” so many times it makes us want to take his batteries out.

However, no batteries are needed with the Donnie Talks-a-Lot, so we just go back to looking at our phones and checking our social media feeds. We see social media as an escape to what is going on. We underestimate social media so much that we don’t realize that it is a hide-a-key that is so easy for Vladimir Putin to find.

Although it's hard to believe, Donald Trump can be just as dangerous as Putin.

If you watch the documentary “Putin’s Revenge” on Frontline, you can see that it’s as if Putin is molding Trump into a dumbed-down version of himself.

Go back to your Facebook feed from November 2016. That seems like ages ago, so I’ll refresh your memory.

Do you remember an ad with a thumbs-up Donald Trump and the saying, “Make America Great Again! Join Florida Trump Rallies!” underneath?

How about an ad from Army of Jesus with Jesus and Satan arm wrestling and Satan backing Hillary Clinton?

What about the Born Liberal ad featuring Bernie Sanders and the caption “Clinton Foundation is a 'Problem?'”

There’s even Being Patriotic’s ad of policemen carrying an American flag-clad casket with the headline, “Another Gruesome Attack on Police by a BLM Activist."

According to the House Intelligence Committee, these were all ads created by Russian Internet trolls and bots linked to the Kremlin.

These ads were meant to create a political divide in the United States to influence the election, mostly in favor of Donald Trump.

They rile up both sides so that they get the liberals to hate the conservatives and the conservatives to hate the liberals.

What made it worse was that the ads were shared all over the Internet. I am sure they were shared by your friends and family because they were definitely shared by mine.

This misinformation leads to those Thanksgiving royales that took place in 2016. Of course, this is what Putin wants — for us to hate each other. When we are so distracted by hate, we are unaware of what is going on behind the scenes in Washington.

As explored in “Putin’s Revenge,” the similarities between both Putin and Trump are frightening.

Try to guess if these next quotes are describing Putin or Trump.

"He is a man obsessed with TV. He watches tapes of the evening news over and over and over again to see how he's portrayed, to see how he looks."

This sure sounds like Trump. Does the “Celebrity Apprentice” ring any bells? Despite his show lagging behind "Mike and Molly" in 2015, he still claimed it was the number one show on television.

He praised himself that he got 11 million more views for his inauguration than President Obama received for his second. That would only be impressive if President Obama had not gotten 7.2 million more viewers for his first inauguration.

I would’ve thought that description fit Trump perfectly, yet it is Putin.

"He tries to show you he's the alpha male in the room through the way he spreads his legs, through the way he slouches a bit in his chair, through the way that he will look at people and kind of give them a dismissive hand wave."

This is probably Trump. Whenever a camera catches Trump’s eye or he is asked a question he can’t answer, he gives the hand and walks away. He crosses his arms when seated as if he can’t be touched. He treats himself like Genie in “Aladdin” who will grant wishes with a cross of the arms.

Putin again. I could've sworn it was Trump.

"He's a professional liar."

This has to be Trump. Donald Trump lies about things on a daily basis.

There was that time he said he was on Time's cover 14 or 15 times and how it was an all-time record. First of all, he was on Time's cover 11 times. Second of all, Nixon beat his so-called record five times over.

There was also that time when he said Chicago has the strongest gun laws in the nation when in reality, New York and Los Angeles are stronger.

What he seems to say the most often is that the United States is the highest-taxed nation in the world, even though it is not. Wait, this is Putin again. It can’t be.

The only difference is Putin is that smart enough to not be on tape when he lies.

In fact, Trump’s campaign strategies were influenced by Putin.

Trump’s famous slogan, “Make America Great Again,” isn’t his own. During his 1997-2001 term as U.S Ambassador to Russia, Jim Collins said that Putin came up to him and said, “I’m going to make Russia great again.” (Ronald Reagan also used "Make America Great Again" for his campaign in 1980.)

After Putin became Prime Minister in 1999, he took the apartment bombings in Moscow to his advantage. To keep up his TV appearances, he went down to the scene and made sure that he was filmed talking to the troops. He wanted to create a facade that he was getting things done.

When he’s on TV, he acts like a determined leader and plays to his audience.

This makes me think of Trump cracking jokes and literally throwing paper towel rolls to Hurricane Maria victims as if paper towels would soak up the floods.

When he is filmed, Trump makes himself look busy, signing papers or looking at something on his desk.

Both talk it up on TV, but when the cameras stop rolling, their activism stops. Both feed on the fear from terrorist attacks to get what they want done, mostly through extreme rhetoric.

After the Moscow bombings, Putin responded, “we’ll be chasing terrorists everywhere, at the airports or in the toilet. We’ll waste them in an outhouse."

In one of Trump’s addresses, he claimed that he would “eradicate [Islamic terrorism] completely from the face of the earth.”

Back in September, Trump used the London terrorist attack to promote his travel ban. Instead of helping the victims, he used their pain to prove that the ban would actually pass.

Most dangerous, however, is Trump and Putin's shared ability to manipulate the media.

Putin first tried to manipulate television because TV is where more than 90 percent of Russians got their news.

According to a 2016 survey from the Pew Research Center, 57 percent of Americans get their news from TV, 38 percent from online, 25 percent from radio and 20 percent from print newspapers.

Before Putin took power, there was a successful political satire called “Kukly” on NTV, which featured politicians as puppets.

Putin was portrayed as a doe-eyed idiot on the show, which drove him to madness. Once Putin had enough power, he had police raid NTV’s parent company Media-Most, and then jailed NTV owner Vladimir Gusinsky.

The only way for Gusinsky to get out of jail was to hand over NTV to the Kremlin. His goal is to delegitimize broadcast media and make it state-run.

Sound familiar?

Trump calls the media an “enemy of the American people” and says journalists are “the most dishonest people.”

In a tweet, he even suggested the FCC examine and revoke the licensing procedures of major news networks just because they featured him negatively.

Those were baseless attacks.

Trump hit harder when he tried to halt the publication of “Fire and Fury," Michael Wolff’s exposé on Trump’s White House. This, I learned in mediated communication class, is a big no-no.

A president’s attempt to intimidate and halt the publication of a book concerning government procedures is called prior restraint.

As Justice Hugo Black once wrote, "the press was to serve the governed, not the governors."

Trump’s actions here are downright unconstitutional, as he should not attempt to take away the press’ first amendment rights. That is how dictatorships form, and that is exactly what Putin wants.

Trump not only attacks the left-leaning CNN and MSNBC, but also liberal late-night hosts and SNL’s portrayal of him.

Although we might be protected for now with the first amendment, Putin’s past actions make me wonder what Trump will do next.

Could he find a loophole to cancel “Saturday Night Live,” or at least prevent Alec Baldwin from doing his uncanny impersonations? I sure hope not.

If we could tear down Putin’s wall, I believe we can tear down Trump’s wall too.