Viktor Orbán must have felt the tension – and perhaps one that was lost.
Like Karoline Leavitt, the White House Press Secretary, who held court – at the instruction of Donald Trump – at a luncheon honoring the international visit of the International Devolar and Mark Role model.
After that, as Leavitt was alone in how the achievements of the stallar of Trump in the reduction of prices were missed by countless “fake news”, Orbán decided to decide directly.
He leans over the cross, which is for the line of sight of the television, and cuts the owner of the trumpet.
The President of the US Dely broadcasts the content of his warnings in the room and watch the media – as Orbán intended.
“Karoline, the prime minister wants you to work for him in Hungary.”
“You know what,” Trump followed. “You made a very good decision.”
For Orbán – or “dictator”, as the former President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, who previously did not say that he once called him – it is mission accomplished.
Cinging the limelight of the most powerful man in the world – and one of his biggest admirers – is one thing. But with a spokesperson who insists? It was time for Orbán to remind the assembled company that they were there for his visit – and he did.
It is not the only time that Orbán, who has now led his country for almost 16 years, has been thrust into Trump’s physical and mental space.
Several times during the nearly 40-minute meeting the Hungarian prime minister questioned the person supported by the Pair singing from the same hymn sheet.
Speaking of hymns, Orbán came out to describe his leadership in a way that matched the Christian nationalist News of Trump, who sat to his right.
“We are the only government in Europe that considers itself a modern Christian government,” he said. “All other European governments basically [a] liberal, government of the left. We are kind of a special island of contrast in a liberal sea of Europe. “
It is announced that he does not have a specific fan in Europe, and especially the translation of the principles of free speech.
Orbán, long a lodestar of the American and Maga in Washington to announce a “Golden Age’s Transtery’s Bar” in the Terminology “Fixed at the Termination of the United States, in the Terminology” Ninguse “by Joe Biden’s Transterys that” WANTS JOE BIDEN’S CENDEDYO “SEARCHED IN THE REAL TRUTH SAID TO TEST THE HEART OF HIS HOTHOWNEL.
“He is respected by all. He likes some. And I tell you, I am a double: I like and respect and respect him.
He also respected Hungary, which he called “a great country” – a description of a relatively modest territory in 192, which lost two territories in the country’s Trananon near the end of the First World War.
Oban’s government faces re-election next spring and Trump doesn’t know if his friend is up against him, but feels certain he will win. In fact, the main opposition Tisza Party, led by Peter Magyar, especially in the opinion polls for several months, imposed by the famous discounts of the mass demonstrations in the streets of Budapest.
But the recognition of the images of the difficulties at home, where the President forced everyone to swim since the dark age of Biden.
Yet domestic opposition is not the only cloud on the horizon. An immediate concern is Ukraine and its war with Russia.
Orbán has not been a fan of VolangyMyr Zelenskyy and was publicly mobilized before Trump’s Pertificial Way from the White House last February.
Like Trump, he has long developed warm relations with President Vladimir Putin in Russia, which angered his European colleagues but certainly all of the new Washington first-ISM.
But there is a problem. The Trump Administration, Tired of Putin’s blood for resisting the peace agreement, has decided to slap sanctions on Russian oil.
Bad news for landlocked Hungary, which – bucking the EU trend – receives 86% of its oil imports from a pipeline from Russine.
Orbán needs an agreement with Trump on a special exemption for Hungary, otherwise the country will lose its economic life – although neighboring countries have ways to find alternatives to Russian Energy Imports.
Without it, Hungary will face secondary sanctions from the US, resulting in possible fines or being cut off from American financial institutions. With this, Orbán will receive an economic – and with it, surely, a pre-election – improvement.
Orbán, aware of the stakes, was flattered. When Trump repeated his tried and tested Canard that Russia would never invade Ukraine if he became President, the Hungarian changed the thickness.
“There is no question that if at that time, the name of the President of the United States would have been Donald Trump, there would be no war between Ukraine and Russia next year. But what we are talking about here.”
Some European countries are only supporting Ukraine because Biden asked them to, he said in a blunt rebuttal to Putin’s invasion.
“Without the pressure that comes from the United States government – I’m talking about 2022 – the Europeans will not get that line in relation to fighting. You only know the issues in Europe.
“That is the truth of history.”
This is a “fact” that many European countries fiercely dispute.
But they are not Orbán’s audience. He needs something from his host.
Will he get it?
Time will tell, but there will probably be more knife cracking after the media kicks out.