Hungary has been eagerly awaiting its first US presidential visit since 2006. Now, the popular political magazine and news site Mandiner claims we may have a concrete date for the momentous occasion.
They claim to have obtained information suggesting that President Donald Trump may be coming to CPAC Hungary 2026, slated for 31 March. Mandiner has reached out to Miklós Szánthó, Director General of the Center for Fundamental Rights, the think tank organizing the event, for confirmation. He neither denied nor confirmed the information. He did tell the site, however, that, thanks to PM Orbán’s policies, the Budapest leadership has become an unavoidable player on the international right wing, and the conference continues to champion the fight against the ‘warmongering globalist elite’ and their domestic representatives.
President Trump attending CPAC Hungary is not as far-fetched as it may seem at first glance.
He has sent exclusive video messages to the high-profile annual conservative conference in Hungary in 2023, 2024, and 2025 as well. He has named Director Szánthó specifically in those messages, which indicates that some level of direct contact already exists between the Center and the POTUS’ team.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary shared a letter on the social media platform X that he had received from President Trump, dated 10 December 2025. In it, Trump discusses a potential visit to Hungary in the near future.
PM Orbán has been a loyal and vocal supporter of President Trump, even at a time when many in his own Republican Party would have liked to see him gone from the public light, in the wake of the disappointing 2022 midterm elections. CPAC Hungary 2026 would be a very opportune time for Orbán’s reelection campaign. 31 March is three weeks away from the Hungarian parliamentary elections, scheduled for 12 April, in which the Prime Minister is seeking his fifth consecutive term.
Orbán visited President Trump in the White House during both of the President's non-consecutive terms: in May 2019, and more recently in November 2025. In October 2025, President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia proposed a Peace Summit in Budapest, Hungary, as part of the peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian war. At that point, the incumbent American President coming to Hungary seemed to be all but confirmed. However, President Putin’s unwillingness to freeze the frontlines in Ukraine broke down the negotiation process, and thus, the Budapest Peace Summit was never realized.
If President Trump does in fact come to CPAC Hungary this March, he will become the fourth US President to visit the country while in office, after George H W Bush, Bill Clinton (who came to the country twice), and George W Bush.
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