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Donald Trump Told Hungary’s Authoritarian Leader Orbán, ‘It’s Like We’re Twins,’
Newsweek ^ | May 15, 2019 | Cristina Maza

Posted on 05/15/2019 2:48:31 PM PDT by Innovative

President Donald Trump enjoyed his meeting with Hungary's authoritarian prime minister so much that he likened the Hungarian leader to a twin brother, according to the country’s media reports.

As their meeting at the White House came to a close on Monday, President Trump turned to Viktor Orbán and said, “It’s like we’re twins,” U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Cornstein told the Hungarian news outlet 444.hu.

During a public press conference that same day, Trump expressed a similar sentiment: “Viktor Orbán has done a tremendous job in so many different ways. He’s highly respected, respected all over Europe. Probably like me a little bit controversial, but that’s OK. That’s OK. You’ve done a good job. And you’ve kept your country safe,” Trump told Orbán in front of reporters during the joint press conference.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dementia; eurabia; eussr; fakenews; fourthreich; hungary; newsweek; orban; orbanvisit; trump; trumporban
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They both want to keep out the hordes from their countries. Orban was already able to do it, put up a fence and plenty of border guards, Trump is working on it.
1 posted on 05/15/2019 2:48:31 PM PDT by Innovative
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I’m guessing Trump has a much better looking wife.


2 posted on 05/15/2019 2:49:21 PM PDT by PGR88
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“authoritarian”

OK, I’m stumped. What makes Orban “authoritarian”, other than that the author doesn’t like him?


3 posted on 05/15/2019 2:51:30 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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Authoritarian?!?!?

Funny you never hear them call, say Maduro, “Authoritarian”.


4 posted on 05/15/2019 2:52:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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He’s enormously popular, anti-globalist, and protects the Hungarian people.


5 posted on 05/15/2019 2:53:13 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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From Wakipedia: “According to Politico, Orbán political philosophy ‘echoes the resentments of what were once the peasant and working classes’ by promoting an ‘uncompromising defense of national sovereignty and a transparent distrust of Europe’s ruling establishments’”.

Somehow THAT got translated to “authoritarian”?! Exactly whose personal freedoms get infringed with that thinking again?


6 posted on 05/15/2019 2:54:03 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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“Orban was already able to do it”

Orban doesn’t have a huge opposition political party with the backing of every news outlet actively trying to get as many illegal invaders across the border as possible.


7 posted on 05/15/2019 2:55:00 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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Here’s the dictionary definition of “authoritarian”

“of or relating to a governmental or political system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as completely subordinate to the power or authority of the state, centered either in one person or a small group that is not constitutionally accountable to the people.”

Closely describes the globalist sympathies of Newsweek and their ilk, no? Who are the authoritarians, then?


8 posted on 05/15/2019 2:57:18 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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Exactly. Orban is very popular and gets a lot of support.

Unfortunately here there are too many people who don’t put US interests first.


9 posted on 05/15/2019 2:57:25 PM PDT by Innovative
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The Hungarian Press is pretty anti-Orban. I’m sure most of the “journalists” there are on Soros’ payroll.


10 posted on 05/15/2019 2:57:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“What makes Orban “authoritarian”, other than that the author doesn’t like him?”

The fact that he’s democratically elected, unlike the thugs the author idolizes


11 posted on 05/15/2019 2:58:36 PM PDT by Regulator
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Authoritarian = believes in national borders


12 posted on 05/15/2019 2:59:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Barr:The Bill Belichick of Attorneys General)
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I just hope President Trump used the right phrasebook.....


13 posted on 05/15/2019 2:59:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Authoritarian = believes in national borders

yup


14 posted on 05/15/2019 3:00:56 PM PDT by samtheman (To steal an election, who do you collude with? Russians in Russia or Mexicans in California?)
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Orban made Soros close his “university”, which was teaching nothing but propaganda.


15 posted on 05/15/2019 3:01:58 PM PDT by Innovative
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They hate Hungary because of no homo promo laws...


16 posted on 05/15/2019 3:02:48 PM PDT by northislander
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I haven’t believed anything Newsweek said since they published a fake story about our troops flushing a Koran down a toilet. At least 100 in Afghanistan and Pakistan died from the riots caused by that lie.


17 posted on 05/15/2019 3:08:26 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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President Donald Trump enjoyed his meeting with Hungary's authoritarian prime minister ...

No bias there from #FakeNews Newsweak.

18 posted on 05/15/2019 3:09:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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19 posted on 05/15/2019 3:12:10 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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I’m guessing Trump has a much better looking wife.

You cannot always judge a book by its cover.


20 posted on 05/15/2019 3:12:32 PM PDT by saintgermaine (saintgermaine the time traveller)
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