Donald Trump has never had any issues with cozying up to autocratic leaders as displayed buy one of the former president’s recent remarks about Hungarian President Viktor Orbán.
During an interview with Fox News that aired on August 31st, Trump spoke about Orbán in a rather worrying way considering the Hungarian President has been described as an autocrat by several different global news outlets
“Viktor Orbán… I mean he’s strong. They consider him strong. It’s a good thing, not a bad thing. Runs a strong country,” Trump explained while briefly talking about Orbán, with whom he has developed a rather close relationship.
In 2022, a report from the European Union charged Orbán with creating an “electoral autocracy” in Hungary and it concluded that the country could not be considered a full democracy according to BBC News.
However, the problematic nature of Orbán’s leadership hasn’t stopped former president Trump from inviting the Hungarian President to meet with him several times since being voted out of office by the American people in 2020.
Trump’s close relationship with an autocrat is worrying some Republicans (msn.com)