suck up to

A clown car full of grifters and kooks, meanwhile, used the primaries as an opportunity to suck up to Trump, whom everyone knew would inevitably be the nominee.

“Again, that’s not the point, the point is to suck up to their Dear Leader.”

Yes, he is a shallow, puerile narcissist who loves to suck up to tyrants so they'll let him into the strongman club but that doesn't fully explain his apparently endless need to prove his fealty to Vladimir Putin.

As her recent rash of race-baiting comments shows, she is only too happy to suck up to racists, if she thinks it will get their votes.

A super PAC backing Ms. Haley put out a new ad on broadcast television stations Friday that depicts Mr. DeSantis as a “suck up” to Mr. Trump — featuring old photos of them together, along with clips from a 2018 DeSantis campaign ad in which Mr. DeSantis recites Mr. Trump’s slogans to his children.