Americans see embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as 'good' and 'strong' while their top one-word assessments for Russian President Vladimir Putin include 'evil' and 'dictator.'

Those are the results of a recent J.L. Partners poll for DailyMail.com, analyzing the attitudes of voters towards the conflict in Ukraine.

They show how President Donald Trump may have got out ahead of public opinion with his attacks on the Ukrainian leader.

Trump upended the coalition backing Zelensky during a 90-minute call with Putin last week and, when the Ukrainian leader protested, delivered a withering broadside.

On Wednesday, he called Zelensky 'a modestly successful comedian' who 'talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won.'

'A Dictator without Elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,' he wrote, referring to the fact that Ukrainian elections have been postponed because of the war.

Yet when 1009 registered voters were asked last month for their one-word assessment of the two leaders, it was Putin who was labeled the 'dictator.'

Even Republicans, who are more skeptical of support for Ukraine, said Putin was 'bad,' 'criminal,' and a 'killer.'

Word clouds of the responses show the hostility of Americans towards the Russian leader, who is now in his fifth term as president.

Zelensky generated much more positive answers. 

Although the top response was 'unsure,' the next words to feature on our word cloud were good,' 'strong,' 'brave,' and 'hero.'

The responses suggest an American public that is skeptical of Russian motives and the trustworthiness of its leader.

When asked directly who they trusted more, some 52 percent of respondents said they trusted Zelensky more than Putin. Only 12 percent said Putin.

The numbers are only slightly different when just Republicans are polled. Some 16 percent say they trust Putin more than Zelensky. 

James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, said Trump appeared to be out of touch with voters but that that could change rapidly. 

'Trump voters might back Ukraine over Russia, but they do not rank it high up their list of priorities, and it certainly does not inform their political identity,' he said. 

'That means that I suspect the next time we poll this, the numbers will look more polarized on the question of Zelensky—with more Republicans following the line of President Trump regardless of their previous views on the matter. 

'However, I don’t expect views of Putin himself to change: views that he is an evil dictator seem very embedded, hardly a surprise given the graphic scenes in Bucha and elsewhere over the last few years.'

Russian troops launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

Moscow gambled on a swift win, but its forces were repelled by tougher than expected resistance.

As Russian forces pulled back, they left evidence of a massacre in Bucha. Local authorities said they recovered 458 bodies, including nine children under the age of 18.

The result was a hardening of world opinion against Moscow, with sanctions imposed against Putin and his backers.

Trump campaigned on a promise that he would end the war on day one of his presidency. And although he has since adjusted that to within six months, he has begun talks with Putin, moving to end Russia's international isolation, and suggesting that it should be readmitted to the G7 group of highly industrialized nations.

This week, he suggested that Ukraine 'should have never started the war,' despite the fact that Russian troops invaded their smaller neighbor 

Last week, after their call, Trump said he believed that Putin wanted peace.

'I trust him on this subject,' he told reporters. 'I think he'd like to see something happen.' 

The result has been unease in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where officials believe they have been shut out of talks.

On Wednesday, Zelensky outlined his unease that the American president was being taken for a ride by Putin. 

'With all due respect to President Donald Trump as a leader... he is living in this disinformation space,' he said. 

Trump's vice president warned Zelensky that his approach would backfire.

'The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president's mind by badmouthing him in public media ... everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,' J.D. Vance told DailyMail.com during an exclusive interview in his West Wing office. 

However, a string of Republican lawmakers distanced themselves from Trump's criticism of Ukraine and the use of the term 'dictator' to describe Zelensky.

'It’s not a word I would use,' said Sen. Thom Tillis, who also said the war was the responsibility of one man's actions: Putin.