President Trump has formed a one-man welcoming committee for the re-appearance of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
“I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!” the president tweeted shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday.
The message was accompanied by a retweet of photos of Kim at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a fertilizer plant. The dictator had been rumored to be sick or dead.
A South Korean news agency reported Kim had attended the ceremony at the plant Friday.
It was the first reported public sighting for Kim since April 11 when he was presiding over a political bureau meeting of the ruling Workers Party.
The president’s effusive tweet prompted pushback from US Rep Joseph Kennedy III.
“I shouldn’t have to say this but, no president should ever praise a dictator on Twitter,” the Massachusetts congressman tweeted.
