US President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke on Wednesday about Russian energy, tariffs, and the war in Ukraine. The call came as Trump urged Europe to end Russian imports, while Budapest insists geography leaves it no choice. FM Péter Szijjártó stressed that Hungary’s energy security is a matter of pipelines, not ideology.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary could soon classify Antifa as a terrorist organization, echoing a similar initiative by US President Donald Trump. Orbán recalled violent attacks in Budapest in 2023, when Italian MEP Ilaria Salis joined Antifa groups targeting people with a ‘right-wing appearance’, and stated that such movements must be treated like the Islamic State.
Donald Trump’s legacy split the stage at Brain Bar 2025, where Zoltán Pogátsa slammed him as an opportunist ‘populist clown’, while Jacob Reynolds hailed him as a disruptor who exposed the failures of globalization and elite complacency. The fiery debate showed why Trump remains the most divisive figure in global politics.
A new poll by Donald Trump’s longtime pollster, McLaughlin & Associates, shows Fidesz–KDNP leading Tisza—contradicting weeks of opposition-linked surveys that had placed Péter Magyar’s party ahead. Commissioned by Index, the poll puts Fidesz at 43 per cent, Tisza at 37, with Viktor Orbán still seen as the favourite for prime minister.
Hungarians will soon enjoy full visa-free travel to the United States again, after President Trump’s administration reversed restrictions imposed under Joe Biden. US Chargé d’Affaires Robert Palladino announced that from 30 September, ESTA approvals will be valid for two years, allow multiple entries, and cover all Hungarian citizens.
At the 5th Geopolitical Summit in Budapest, US Chargé d’Affaires Robert Palladino framed Hungary as central to the ‘renewal of Western civilization’, praising its defence of sovereignty and family. He argued that America and Hungary are allies not by convenience but conviction, united against chaos by shared civilizational values.
The brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has ignited a political storm in the US, with President Donald Trump demanding the death penalty for her killer. Outrage over judicial negligence has spurred both memorial campaigns and Republican calls for systemic reform.
Western media suggest Viktor Orbán could ‘climb down’ from Hungary’s veto on Ukraine’s EU bid after alleged pressure from Donald Trump. Yet officials stress the call itself is disputed—and insist accession would drag an open war into the EU, a step Hungary refuses to take.
Bryan Leib, Senior Fellow at the Center for Fundamental Rights, has recently posted to X, advocating that the proposed trilateral meeting between US President Donald Trump, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and President Putin of Russia should take place in Budapest, Hungary.
‘Closing the press conference, President Putin addressed Donald Trump in English and invited the American leader to meet “next time in Moscow”. It is an extremely rare occasion to hear the Russian President speaking in English.’