Posted on 08/19/2025 1:52:04 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
US President Donald Trump called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to address his obstruction of Ukraine's EU membership, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
The conversation emerged from Monday's White House discussions between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.
European officials requested that Trump leverage his relationship with Orban to convince him to abandon his opposition to Ukraine's EU bid, the news outlet reported, citing those familiar with the matter.
Orban maintains opposition
During the call, Hungary expressed a willingness to host future negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy.
Trump said there would be a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, but the location has not yet been finalized.
Orban responded publicly Tuesday on the US social media company Facebook, indicating he received the membership request but remained unmoved. "Ukraine's membership in the European Union does not provide any security guarantees," he wrote. "Therefore linking membership with security guarantees is unnecessary and dangerous."
Neither Washington nor Budapest confirmed the call.
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Orban is correct and Trump is DEAD WRONG about allowing the Ukraine to join the NATO, which now needs to be dissolved anyway!
Phone call was about EU.
Orbán has been called the Hungarian Trump because Orbán always puts his own country first. Hungary’s interests come first.
I think (hope) Trump respects that.
I wonder if Ukraine would drop demands for joining NATO in exchange for joining the EU?
Trump is just trying to explore all avenues.
(pssst!), (your tds is showing). ( the e.u. and nato are not the same thing).
Orban is probably the only sane one of the EU ... who would want a bunch of corrupt Nazis to join the corrupt Fascist EU?
Or it simply never happened.
These articles are so superficial. None explain why Hungary opposes Ukraine’s membership in the EU. Or they claim its because Orban is Putin’s stooge (sound familiar?). If Orban opposes Ukraine using the EU as a Trojan Horse to become part of the EU mutual security arrangements, then he is right to oppose it. Ukraine can join the EU without any security guarantees.
Orban is on track to losing the election next year so he has to continue to cosplay strongman until he loses.
If most Ukrainians could work in the EU, few would be left to work in Ukraine.
For their own safety against future drafts, the young men of Ukraine would head west.
Ukraine might get equality in goods and services export.
Here is the truth.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/white-house-is-preparing-trump-putin-zelensky-trilateral/
Orban is on track to losing the election next year so he has to continue to cosplay strongman until he loses.
Sooner or later all once popular politicans are gone. That’s why Putin murders his political opponents. No way he’d ever still be in power with free elections.
Well, technically Orban has been at it fir over 2 decades now, so it’s more that Trump is the American Orbán
If most Ukrainians could work in the EU, few would be left to work in Ukraine.
They are already overrunning Poland.
President Trump is playing the middle here. He is calling but he is not pressuring Hungary. He can say, “I talked to them” and be done with it.
Its probably another part of the negotiations.
This guy posts nothing but anti anybody who does support Ukraine in any way crap all day everyday. Orban is doing well.
Hungary is the next target for the Globalists.
Here’s a security guarantee that I think EU citizens and Americans can live with:
Ukraine shall have the right to buy listed weapons
[Patriots, anti-aircraft weapons, artillery shells, missiles]
from the US, EU and possibly the UK
at prices in line with what the source entity government(s) would pay,
subject to listed restrictions,
all purchases to be subject to veto by the EU as EU law may provide.
The last clause is in case Ukraine gets a pro-Russian government or misbehaves badly.
Think Greece X 100 as far as corruption, insolvency and fraud go.
Anyone getting involved with that craphole and its greasy, grifting, gay-dancing "leader" deserves to get royally porked. The EU dirtbags are simply puffing up their sunken little chests to save face after all their years of "Take THAT Putin!," bullshit which did little more than impoverish their own citizens.
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