(Photo: ZOLTAN FISCHER/AFP)
The bond between the two leaders became more prominent in 2019 during Orban-Trump talks in the White House, a meeting that highlighted the prime minister’s growing role not only in Europe but globally, emerging as a key figure for nations like Israel, Trump’s US, and even China.
The relationship remained steadfast, even beyond Donald Trump’s first presidency.
In 2021, Trump wrote a letter to Orban saying:
He thanked Orban for his friendship and his commitment to shared values like freedom and patriotism.
Donald Trump’s Second Presidency
In July 2024, PM Viktor Orban embarked on a whirlwind peace mission. The last stop was a meeting on July 11 with then presidential candidate Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
At the time PM Orban posted on social media:
Peace Mission 5.0. It was an honor to visit @realDonaldTrump in Mar-a-Lago. We discussed ways to make peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!
In response, Donald Trump sent a personal message to Orban:
Thank you, Viktor. Let there be peace, quickly. Too many lives have been lost in a war that should never have started!
Later that year, after Trump’s reelection as US president, the two leaders met again in Mar-a-Lago for a three-hour discussion, demonstrating their continued strong personal and political rapport.
This sign of their close relationship will undoubtedly lead to improved relations between the two countries following Trump’s inaguration, experts say.
Since his re-election, Donald Trump has spoken to the Hungarian prime minister several times on the phone and has also received him in person.
The 45th and 47th president of the United States of America have spoken positively about Viktor Orban on several occasions and praised him in interviews and statements. Tamas Magyarics, a historian and former Hungarian ambassador to Dublin, told Magyar Nemzet earlier,
the President-elect wants to signal who he would work more closely with in the coming years.
In our podcast after the US presidential election, experts pointed out that Viktor Orban’s good personal relationship with Donald Trump could also strengthen the former’s position within the EU.
On the EU-US relations and the impact of the good relationship between Trump and Viktor Orban, Steve Bannon, former senior adviser to the US president-elect, said,
PM Orban is the true bridge to Trump from Europe.
Bannon added that the Hungarian prime minister is the one who is most in alignment with the MAGA movement. A colleague of the senior adviser also stressed that PM Viktor Orban has always supported Donald Trump behind the scenes as well as publicly, which has strengthened their good personal relationship and also serves a mediating role between Europe and the new US administration.
Cover photo: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and US President-elect Donald Trump (MTI/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Zoltan Fischer)
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