As Hungarian Conservative has also reported, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary is now confirmed to meet with Former US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on 8 March, as Reuters also informed. It was The New York Times that first reported on a potential meet-up between the two statesmen, as we wrote earlier—the rumour is now confirmed with a set date.

President Trump has been frequently speaking of PM Orbán on the campaign trail. He uses Orbán’s claim, according to which peace will come to Eastern Europe again only if Donald Trump is reelected to the White House, as a pitch for his presidency. The Hungarian Prime Minister first articulated this opinion in an interview with Tucker Carlson in August 2023.

PM Orbán and President Trump have met once already. In May 2019, Trump hosted him in the White House.

Prior to that, Orbán had visited the White House only once. He was hosted by another Republican president, George W. Bush, in 2001.

The Hungarian head of government has repeatedly expressed his preference for Trump over incumbent US President Joe Biden. Reuters quotes him in their aforementioned article explaining his show of support for the presumptive Republican nominee:

‘It is not gambling, but actually betting on the only sensible chance that we in Hungary bet on the return of President Trump…The only chance of the world for a relatively fast peace deal is political change in the United States, and this is linked to who is the president.’

In April, Hungary will be hosting CPAC for the third time. At CPAC Hungary 2023, Viktor Orbán directly addressed President Trump in his keynote speech, saying ‘please come back, Mr President’. This was in May 2023, at a time when even many Republican leaders and commentators favoured Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over President Trump for the party's nomination. In return, President Trump sent an exclusive video message to the conference.

Furthermore, when President Trump was first indicted in criminal court in April 2023, Viktor Orbán showed his moral support in a public message on the social media platform Twitter (now renamed X).

At rallies, Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken of Orbán in complementary terms. For example, at a rally in Clive, Iowa in October 2023,

Trump called the Hungarian Prime Minister ‘the strongest leader, a very powerful man’, and ‘a great gentleman’.

The former POTUS is known to greatly appreciate people who show loyalty to him. At times, his seeking of loyalty caused him considerable detriment. When, during his time in office, he asked FBI director James Comey to be loyal to him in a private meeting, Comey took it as the President trying to influence the (by the way, totally bogus) investigation of potential Russian influence over his 2016 campaign. Comey even titled his 2018 auto-biography A Higher Loyalty after the incident.

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