{"id":16646,"date":"2024-03-08T00:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/hungarys-orban-to-meet-with-trump-not-biden-on-visit-to-us-courting-foreign-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:47:04","slug":"hungarys-orban-to-meet-with-trump-not-biden-on-visit-to-us-courting-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/hungarys-orban-to-meet-with-trump-not-biden-on-visit-to-us-courting-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s Orb\u00e1n to meet with Trump, not Biden, on visit to US courting foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n is expected to visit former President Donald Trump at his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago on Friday but is not scheduled to meet with President Biden or visit the White House during his trip courting potential foreign policy in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The visit was first reported last week by The New York Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n\u2019s trip to the U.S. comes without an invitation from the White House, according to The Guardian. The Hungarian prime minister is expected to speak at a panel with the leader of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation on Thursday before heading to Trump\u2019s West Palm Beach estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n, who has been in office since 2010, has promoted what he calls \u2018illiberal democracy\u2019 and has been criticized by international observers, including the U.S. State Department, for leading an increasingly autocratic system in Hungary, including allegations that he has rolled back minority rights, seized control of the judiciary and media and manipulated the country\u2019s election system to remain in power, according to The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez questioned in a 2023 op-ed, \u2018Why is the Biden administration funding agitation against Hungary, a NATO ally with a pro-American population?\u2019 As he put it, \u2018Hungary may sit strategically at the crossroads of Europe, but what irritates the liberals in the White House is that its government stands up for Western values.\u2019<\/p>\n

Some American conservative commentators have championed Orb\u00e1n for standing against the European Union on mass migration and vowing border security. In what some on the right celebrate as protecting family values, Orb\u00e1n exempted women with four children from paying income tax for life in 2019, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n and Trump have long been allies, and Trump regularly praises the right-wing populist politician in his campaign speeches. The two met in August 2022 at Trump\u2019s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club when Orb\u00e1n traveled to the U.S. to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas.<\/p>\n

In April 2023, when charges were filed in the first of Trump\u2019s four criminal cases, Orb\u00e1n posted a message of support for Trump urging him to \u2018keep on fighting.\u2019 Trump said in early 2022 that he was giving his \u2018complete support and endorsement\u2019 to Orb\u00e1n\u2019s re-election campaign that year.<\/p>\n

Amid some concern that Orb\u00e1n is lobbying the U.S. on behalf of Russia, Katalin Cseh, a member of the European Parliament representing Hungary\u2019s opposition Momentum party, told The Guardian, \u2018If Trump really was the China hawk he claims to be, he would be grilling Orb\u00e1n about cozying up to Beijing.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018But it seems Trump is more interested in cozying up to authoritarians himself,\u2019 she said, according to the outlet, adding that \u2018they could even be swapping notes on how to undermine NATO to suit Putin\u2019s interests.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The trip comes as Sweden on Thursday formally joined NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality following Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine despite objections from NATO members Turkey and Hungary. Orb\u00e1n\u00a0earlier this year said in a speech that he would welcome a Trump return to the White House to \u2018make peace here in the eastern half of Europe.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. ambassador in Budapest, David Pressman, however, surmised in an interview with The Guardian earlier this year that the Hungarian government was pursuing a \u2018fantasy\u2019 foreign policy.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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