MIAMI:”Orban Meets Trump Post-NATO Summit”, Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban jetted off to Florida on Thursday (Jul 11) to meet with former United States president Donald Trump after the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Washington.
The sit-down at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is likely to further upset Budapest’s allies after Orban drew widespread ire from European counterparts for meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.
Right-wing Orban, whose country took over the rotating presidency of the European Union this month, has been a vocal supporter of Trump, and last met the 2024 Republican presidential hopeful in March.
“We discussed ways to make peace,” Orban said in a post on social media on Thursday evening with a picture of the two leaders meeting. “The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!”
Trump responded to Orban’s post, writing on his Truth Social site: There must be PEACE, and quickly. Too many people have died in a war that should never have started!”
Orban sparked uproar in the EU by jetting to Moscow to hold talks with Putin on what the Hungarian leader described as a “peace mission” over the war in Ukraine.
