A far more famous celebrity than Yoko Ono, Oliver Stone, Harry Belafonte or Danny Glover onced fawned over another despot. The celebriy's message then was the same: "It is the American President, not the Despot, that the World should really fear".
Charles Lindbergh patting the head of the Nazi dragon in a cartoon by Theodor Seuss Geisel (later known as "Dr. Seuss"):