Prime Minister provokes Orban leaves Nato summit early to meet with Trump

As part of his tour of states staged as a "peace mission", the head of government of the Nato country is visiting Russia, China - and now Trump in Florida.

Less than a week after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and immediately after the NATO summit in Washington, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban paid a visit to former US President Donald Trump.

The Hungarian prime minister posted a photo of the meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on X and wrote: "Peace mission 5.0 (...) We discussed ways to #peace. The good news of the day: he will solve it!"

The two right-wing populists maintain a very friendly relationship and had already met in Florida in March. Back then, Orban described his host as the "president of peace", while the American praised the Hungarian as the "best leader" ever.

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Trump wants to return to the White House for the Republicans after the US election in November and replace Joe Biden as president, who is once again running for the Democrats. The election campaign is in the middle of the hot phase.

Orban had already made headlines in the days leading up to the summit. As part of his tour of states staged as a "peace mission", the head of government of the NATO country visited Russia, China and Ukraine.

At the NATO summit in Washington, Hungary had caused a scandal shortly beforehand. At the end of the NATO summit, the Hungarian government accused its NATO partners of double standards and failure in dealing with the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stood in for Orban, who had left the summit early due to the meeting with Trump.

SDA