Otto Warmbier Trends on Twitter as Users Call Out Donald Trump for Friendly Meeting with North Korea

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As President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un Sunday for an historic, brief face-to-face in the demilitarized zone between South Korea and North Korea, many Twitter users criticized the president for his openly warm interactions with the head of a government that imprisoned and fatally beat American college student Otto Warmbier.

Warmbier was a student at the University of Virginia when, in 2016 he was arrested during a tour through North Korea and accused of attempting to steal a propaganda poster. He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and hard labor. After 17 months in prison, the Trump administration negotiated Warmbier's release, but the 22-year-old had been left in a vegetative state due to his mistreatment while in custody. He passed away in June 2017 at a hospital in Cincinnati.

A number of Twitter users voiced concerns about Trump being so eager to meet with Kim in what they viewed as largely a photo opportunity.

Democratic Congressman Don Beyer from Virginia called out what he saw as Republican hypocrisy on North Korea.

"While GOP politicians scream 'socialist' at us for wanting workers to have a living wage and health care Trump is befriending a real-life communist dictator whose regime tortured and murdered Otto Warmbier and stockpiles nuclear weapons," tweeted Beyer.

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[saidsimplesimon]

1. They are certainly peas in a pod.

Perhaps Kim will gift donnie with a Communist uniform to wear during visits.