Ben Shapiro, conservative commentator and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, said he was not comfortable with President Donald Trump's praise for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Shapiro made his comments in a Tuesday interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
"This is a slave state with 25 million prisoners and a Gulag system hundreds of thousands of people wide," he said. "The president's praise for the dictator of North Korea was disquieting."
And he maintained the excitement over Trump's meeting with Kim is not justified "by the outcome."
"Maybe it will be," Shapiro said. "Maybe President Trump's actually got some serious concessions. … But that would be the first time because virtually every other president has failed in doing that.
"And the piece of paper that got signed yesterday is frankly weak. This is not a strong piece of paper.
"I think best thing the president has done thus far has been all of the strength leading up to this particular summit, not the actual summit itself. When President Trump was demonstrating full-scale he was willing to do whatever is necessary in order to denuclearization the peninsula, and to ensure North Korea eventually transitions into a place more friendly with human rights, that is a lot better than patting Kim Jong Un on the back."
Trump, in an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, noted that he trusted Kim and said people in North Korea love the leader of the regime.
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