Former U.S. President Donald Trump, whereas celebrating the non-endorsements from newspapers such because the Washington Submit and Los Angeles Instances, gained the endorsement on Oct. 31 of a Central European strongman.
“Simply received off the cellphone with President @realDonald Trump,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted on X, wishing him luck in subsequent week’s election. “Fingers crossed.”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, whereas celebrating the non-endorsements from newspapers such because the Washington Submit and Los Angeles Instances, gained the endorsement on Oct. 31 of a Central European strongman.
“Simply received off the cellphone with President @realDonald Trump,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted on X, wishing him luck in subsequent week’s election. “Fingers crossed.”
It’s not shocking that Orban would endorse Trump—they speak often and share an analogous worldview. Orban got here again from his consultations in Russia this spring aiming for a fast finish to the conflict in Ukraine that would depart a part of the nation in Moscow’s fingers; Trump has promised to finish the conflict in “24 hours,” which leaves little doubt about the place the new frontiers could be drawn. Trump even gave Orban a shoutout in his September debate with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, calling him a “revered” strongman.
What’s extra shocking is that Orban, the chief of a rustic nonetheless nominally within the European Union and NATO, overcame any jealousy of Trump’s personal shut ties to Putin (the 2 have reportedly talked many occasions since Trump left workplace) to want him properly.
However Orban’s Hungary is a blueprint, if extra have been wanted than Undertaking 2025, for U.S. conservatives, so his backing will at the least ring a bell with the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) crowd (there was a CPAC in Hungary this 12 months) and reaffirm the energy of, as Orban himself described it a decade in the past, “intolerant democracy.” Orban has demonized immigrants, closed universities, cowed opposition media, taken over the judiciary, and railed towards the bureaucrats in Brussels that fund him.
It’s a match made, if not in heaven, then at the least in Mar-a-Lago.
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