Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán meets today with former US President Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after the NATO summit in Washington and just a week after meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
The meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the third between the two, has not been officially confirmed, but specialized media outlets such as Politico cite unidentified sources reporting the meeting between the two leaders.
Trump has been a strong supporter of Orbán, and the meeting comes after others the Hungarian leader held this month, including with Putin in Moscow.
Several NATO countries today expressed their discontent with Orbán's recent trips to Moscow and Beijing, coinciding with the start of Hungary's presidency of the Council of the European Union.
During the Atlantic Alliance summit, which ends today in Washington, Orbán was seen on several occasions isolated from informal conversations between the leaders, or also during his participation in the gala dinner hosted on Wednesday night at the White House by the North President. -American, Joe Biden.
At their meeting last March in Mar-a-Lago, Orbán and Trump analyzed the mechanisms to restore peace in Europe and put an end to the war in Ukraine, which, according to the former US President, would not have broken out if it had continued in the office.
A few days after assuming the rotating presidency of the EU Council on July 1, Orbán visited Kiev, Moscow, Beijing and Washington, in what he described as a "peace mission" to Ukraine.
Orbán and Trump have maintained a good relationship for years and the first time they met was in August 2022, at a Republican golf club in the state of New Jersey.
The Hungarian prime minister was the only head of government in the European Union to support Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections, as well as during the trials launched against the now Republican presidential candidate last year.
The Republican presidential candidate is an admirer of Orbán, who he describes as "the toughest politician in Europe."
For his part, the Hungarian Prime Minister criticizes that the trials against Trump apply a "communist method" while at the same time considering the Republican candidate as the only person who can save the West and humanity in general.
On March 1, Orbán stated at a forum in Turkey that Trump's eventual return to power, after the presidential elections in November, is a necessary condition for ending the war in Ukraine.
And he highlighted that former President Trump (2017-2021) would also have managed to avoid an escalation in the war in the Gaza Strip, because "without the United States it is impossible to make peace in the Middle East".
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