Budapest, Hungary —When Vice President JD Vance held his phone to the mic, it seemed for a moment as though his boss might not pick up. The United States is with him all the way,” Trump told the crowd. The Trump administration views Orbán and the ideological infrastructure he has built as central to its push for a more “like-minded” Europe – that is, anti-woke, anti-green, anti-immigrant. Speaking from Hungary in 2018, Bannon called Orbán “Trump before Trump.”Within a few years, the Conservative Political Action Conference, long a cornerstone of the American right, had established a recurring presence in Hungary. “The irony is that if he’s going to lose, he’s going to lose like a globalist,” he said.

Source: Egypt Independent April 09, 2026 14:14 UTC