Orban will meet Trump at his Florida residence

MIAMI (EFE).- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet this Thursday with former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) at his private club in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, just one week after the NATO summit in Washington and after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time, according to US media reports.

Their third meeting at Mar-a-Lago has not been officially confirmed, but specialized media such as Politico cite anonymous sources who confirm the final meeting between the two leaders.

Amid criticism

Trump has been a strong supporter of Orban, and the meeting follows other meetings the Hungarian leader has held this month, including a meeting with Putin that surprised many.

Various NATO countries today expressed their dismay at Orban’s recent visits to Moscow and Beijing, which coincide with the start of his country’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, in which he has tried to negotiate a peace in the war in Ukraine.

During the allied summit that just ended in Washington, Orban has been seen on various occasions on the sidelines of informal talks between leaders, or even during his participation in a dinner hosted by US President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday night.

In a meeting held in Mar-a-Lago last March, the two leaders analyzed the mechanisms to restore peace in Europe and end the war in Ukraine, a war that, according to Orbán, would not have erupted in the past if the rules had been followed with Trump in the White House.

Days after assuming the rotating presidency of the EU Council on July 1, Orban, a member of the Kremlin government’s closest community club, has visited Kiev, Moscow, Beijing and Washington on what he has described as a “mission of peace” to the war in Ukraine.

Orban and Trump have a good relationship

Orban and Trump have had a good relationship over the years and first met in August 2022 at a Republican golf club in the state of New Jersey.

The Hungarian prime minister was the only EU head of state 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 a fan of Orban, whom he describes as “the toughest politician in Europe”.

In turn, the Hungarian Prime Minister criticized that the lawsuits against Trump implement the “communist method”, while considering the Republican candidate the only person who can save the West and humanity in general.

On March 1, Orban said at a forum in Turkey that Trump’s return to power after the presidential election next November is a necessary condition for ending the war in Ukraine.

And he pointed out that former President Trump would also have been able to prevent the Gaza war from escalating, because “it is impossible to make peace in the Middle East without the United States.”

EFE has tried to confirm the alleged meeting with Orban’s entourage but has not received any response.