US president also praises Viktor Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration during White House summit
Donald Trump has suggested that he could exempt Hungary from sanctions on importing oil from Russia as he praised Viktor Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration during a cozy White House summit.
Trump also called on European leaders to show more respect to the Hungarian prime minister, who has clashed repeatedly with fellow EU heads of government over issues of migration, democracy and rule of law.
“I think they should respect Hungary and respect this leader very, very strongly because he’s been right on immigration,” Trump said as he sat next to Orbán at the White House on Friday.
Orbán has said that he wants to resurrect plans for a summit between Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he claims could bring an end to the war in Ukraine. His detractors in the EU believe that Orbán is too close to Putin and have called him the Kremlin’s “Trojan horse” in the bloc.
