Hungary’s Orban Says He Met With Trump, Musk at Mar-a-Lago

December 10, 2024, 12:17 AM UTC

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he met with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, a sit-down between two populist leaders that could spur worries in some foreign capitals about Trump’s approach to the war in Ukraine.

Joining them in the meetings at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s club in south Florida, were billionaire Elon Musk and US House Representative Mike Waltz of Florida, the president-elect’s incoming national security adviser, according to a post from Orban’s verified account on Musk’s social-platform X.

“The future has begun!” the Hungarian leader said.

Orban, a nationalist leader criticized for his illiberal approaches to governing, has been one ...

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