The Hungarian PM needed Trump’s help over Russia oil sanctions – so he deployed a tried-and-trusted method
Viktor Orbán must have been feeling the tension – and perhaps a bit left out.
As Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, held court – on the instruction of Donald Trump – at a lunch held in honor of the visiting Hungarian leader on Friday, Orbán, self-anointed avatar of international illiberalism and Maga role model, began cracking his knuckles.
Then, as Leavitt waxed loquaciously on how Trump’s stellar achievements in reducing prices were being unaccountably missed by “the fake news”, Orbán decided to intervene more directly.
He leaned across, ostentatiously into the television cameras’ line of vision, and muttered inaudibly to Trump.
