Just hours after three Americans being held in North Korea returned to U.S. soil Donald Trump announced that the specifics of his meeting with Kim Jong Un have been set.

Earlier this morning as Trump greeted the Americans returning home in a full-blown made-for-tv event.  he even had kind words for the North Korean dictator.

Politico reports:

“We want to thank Kim Jong Un,” Trump said after emerging from the medical plane that transported the three prisoners, which he and his wife had boarded to greet the men. “We very much appreciate that he allowed them to go before the meeting. He was nice in letting them go before the meeting … That was a big thing, very important to me.”

This is quite a departure from Trump’s previous statements on Kim Jong Un.

On Good Morning America today Jon Karl interviewed the Vice President asking how both he and Trump have so dramatically changed their tune on a man Mike Pence once called “one of the most brutal dictators on the planet.”