He said that Trump was “out-negotiated” by Kim, noting that the president said after the meeting that the U.S. would halt joint military exercises with South Koreans in exchange for a process that could see North Korea abandoning its nuclear weapons development program.

Margaret Sullivan, a media critic for the Washington Post, said news coverage of the meeting wasn’t critical enough, since Trump made little mention publicly of North Korea’s history of human rights abuse and the signed agreement was a statement of intention that lacked details or enforcement mechanisms.

“[T]he mainstream media seems to simply lack the tools — or possibly the will — to get that kind of dissent across,” she wrote. “Because of wall-to-wall media coverage, carefully choreographed visuals and the usual Trumpian bluster, the Singapore summit largely came across as a triumph of personal diplomacy by the president.”

At the meeting, Trump and Kim repeatedly shook hands and smiled for news cameras. Trump complimented Kim multiple times, calling him “talented” and said he “loves his people,” which some said appeared to be attempts at fostering a potential personal relationship.

On ABC’s “The View,” Meghan McCain said she was bothered by the interaction.

“This is a totalitarian communist dictator in the same vein as Hitler — murder, enslavement, imprisonment, sexual violence, starvation, forced abortions, political, racial, religious persecution,” she said. “My problem was with how far it went, with the sort of buddy-buddy and there was no talk whatsoever of the human rights violations.”

The joint agreement signed by Trump and Kim was meant as the beginning of an effort to develop a more specific plan to get North Korea to denuclearize, as it stated that the U.S. and Pyongyang “commit to hold follow-on negotiations” to be held “at the earliest possible date, to implement the outcomes of the U.S.–[North Korea] summit.”

Trump said in media interviews and a press conference after the meting that he considered it successful and that he trusted Kim intended to follow through on the promise to denuclearize.

Before those comments, liberal MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said he wouldn’t believe Trump’s own account of the encounter, the first part of which was only attended by Trump, Kim and two translators.

“Donald Trump we know will lie about what was said in that room,” O’Donnell said. “He might also say something true that was said in that room. That might happen. He will also take something that was said in that room and twist it to his advantage in a way that a lot of politicians might. But he will definitely, without question, invent things that were not said in that room, and claim they were.”