A Week After Meeting Putin, Hungary's Viktor Orbn To Meet With Trump

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn will meet with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, just one week after the authoritarian leader met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Orbn was already in the country to attend a NATO summit in Washington, where he reaffirmed  that Hungary will not assist NATO or Ukraine as the country defends itself from Russian attacks.

An unnamed source close to Trump told The Guardian  that Trump and Orbn will meet at Mar-a-Lago at 7 p.m. According to the outlet, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, also met with a Hungarian delegation while they were in Washington.

Orbn, who has openly endorsed Trumps 2024 presidential bid, did not consult the Biden administration prior to the trip.

Theres no love lost between the two camps. U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman sharply critiqued the autocrat earlier this month while speaking at an Independence Day reception in Budapest.

We have no other ally or partner not a single one that similarly, overtly and tirelessly, campaigns for a specific candidate in an election in the United States of America, seemingly convinced that, no matter what, it only helps Hungary, or at least helps him personally, Pressman said.

The U.S.-Hungary relationship is based on the shared aspirations of our people Hungarians and Americans to live freely under democracy, rule of law, and security, he added. The Hungarian government would do well not to cheapen that with politics.