Former President Trump touted his international coverage credentials throughout Tuesday evening’s presidential debate, name-checking the robust relationships he constructed with leaders of rival nations and allies alike throughout his time period, most notably Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the “strongman” of Europe.
“He’s a tricky particular person, good prime minister of Hungary,” Trump stated, including that Orban insisted “you need Trump back as president” as a result of “they were afraid of him.”
“China was afraid, and I don’t like to use the word afraid, but I’m just quoting him,” Trump stated. “China was afraid of him. He said Russia was afraid of him.”
“Look, Viktor Orban said it: He said the most respected, most feared person is Donald Trump. We had no problems when Trump was president,” Trump added.
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Trump additionally responded to Vice President Harris’ declare that he “admires dictators, wants to be a dictator on day one” and he “exchanged love letters with Kim Jong Un” by noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin had endorsed her final week and stated he hoped she wins “because what he’s gotten away with is absolutely incredible.”
Then-President Trump shakes fingers with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, on the White Home on Could 13, 2019. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
Trump stated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would by no means have occurred throughout his time in workplace, noting that he knew Putin “very well.”
Trump then blasted Biden for a way he damage the XL pipeline and handed Russia a win with “the biggest pipeline in the world” working into Germany and Europe as a complete.
Then-President Trump meets with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un throughout their second summit assembly on Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Vietnam Information Company/Handout/Getty Pictures)
Trump has repeatedly in contrast his international coverage report to that of the Biden administration, roping in Harris as a part of that coverage, and famous the extra interventionist method he took, utilizing power as deterrence in opposition to Iran and assembly with Putin and North Korean chief Kim Jong Un to make sure stability in areas confronted with uncertainty.
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Trump and Orban loved a rosy relationship in the course of the Trump administration, typically pictured collectively smiling and shaking fingers in sharp distinction to the extra demure conferences between Orban and Biden.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is proven at a NATO summit assembly in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Orban made headlines over the summer time when he prematurely ditched a high-level NATO summit in Washington, D.C., to fulfill with Trump in Florida at a time when Biden confronted questions on his health for workplace and in in search of a second time period. Orban was in search of a cease-fire within the Russia-Ukraine battle, having met individually with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“We continued the peace mission in Mar-a-Lago,” Orban wrote on his official social media account on X after the assembly. “President @realDonaldTrump has proved during his presidency that he is a man of peace. He will do it again!”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is proven with former President Trump throughout his go to to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seashore, Fla., on July 11, 2024. (@PM_ViktorOrban)
“It was an honour to visit President @realDonaldTrump at Mar-a-Lago today,” he wrote in a separate publish that labeled the go to “Peace mission 5.0.” “We discussed ways to make peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!”
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Orban, who assumed the function of president of the European Union as a part of a six-month rotational management scheme, joked on the time that Hungary would “make Europe great again” and warned that “the next American president will not be the same president who is today.”
He instructed different leaders on the formal NATO dinner that allies who nonetheless thought Biden might win the upcoming presidential election “were like people on the Titanic playing violins as the ship went down,” the Monetary Occasions reported.
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Throughout a go to to the U.S. in March, Orban visited with Trump, not Biden, when making an attempt to courtroom potential international coverage within the U.S. He additionally spoke at a panel with the chief of the Heritage Basis, a conservative assume tank.
