On T.'s affinity for brutal authoritarian and fascists, bolstered by specious equivialence, there is a good analysis here, Claws and Roussette :
AP Analysis: Trump retreats from US moral leadership stance
'Instead of using the summit spotlight to demand that Kim protect basic liberties, Trump offered a moral equivocation that evoked the kid-gloves approach he has also taken in meetings with other authoritarians for whom he has expressed admiration. Like Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, for example, and Xi Jinping of China. And King Salman of Saudi Arabia.
The template was established a year ago in Riyadh on Trump's first international trip.
"We are not here to lecture," he said then. "We are not here to tell other people how to live, what to do, who to be or how to worship. Instead, we are here to offer partnership, based on shared interests and values." '
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(What T. actually meant by that last sentence:
'Instead, I am here to offer any partnership that I can exploit for my own advantage, empowerment and enrichment, based solely on my shared interests and values, with no regard for the consequences for anything beyond that aim')