With Trump in power, Orbán announces that he will ban the Soros network from Hungary and calls on patriots across Europe to follow his example.
The Hungarian prime minister also said that Brussels needs to “sober up” and “adapt”.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had bet on Trump’s election victory, is now making far-reaching predictions about a “new golden age” for Hungary with Trump in the White House, while attacking the Democrats and George Soros, including promising to expel his organizations from Hungary.
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“Everything will change, a new day will dawn over the Western world on Tuesday morning. The failed democratic government in America will come to an end,” Viktor Orbán said in his first interview this year with Kossuth radio’s Good Morning Hungary, according to Magyar Nemzet!
Orbán described the Democratic Party and George Soros as “a bunch of idiots” and accused them of trying to impose their ideas on migration, gender and war on the world.
He called the US ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, a “tyrant” who is trying to “push Hungary into the canon of globalists”.
“It is not in line with the ideas of the Hungarian people that a tyrant comes here and says that people from the other side of the world should come here and populate this region before us,” the Hungarian prime minister said, admitting that he was “not ready” to meet Pressman even once during his four years in office.
In connection with the inclusion of Antal Rogán in the US sanctions list, Orbán said that this strengthens Rogán’s position in the government and shows that the minister is doing “a good job”. Although Rogán officially serves as a minister in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office, Orbán stressed that his activities are linked to the Hungarian intelligence services (titkosszolgálatok).
Convinced that the Trump administration will usher in a “new golden age” for Hungary, Orbán declared that his top priority for 2025 is to send George Soros back to the United States, with the “expulsion of the Soros network from Hungary” to begin this spring. Orbán also expressed hope that “patriots elsewhere” would do the same.
“We have to show that the presence of the Soros network in Europe is against the interests of the people,” he said. Noting that Brussels is in the pocket of George Soros, he said: “If there is corruption, it is this one.”
The prime minister spoke of the beginning of a “new era in Brussels” and said Brussels must “sober up” and “adapt”.
The prime minister praised Hungary’s economic policy plans, but also said that they would only work if the war does not escalate and the sanctions policy is ended. He also believes that serious protective measures will be necessary.
“Without money from the West, there is no Ukraine. Ukrainian agriculture is colliding with the European one, and the Ukrainian economy does not fit into the European system,” he added.
He promised jobs and wage increases for all, sees a stronger middle class by 2025 and highlighted Hungary’s system of financial reserves to boost consumption. Orbán also pointed out that Hungarians save an average of 24% of their income, compared to an EU average of 14%.
The energy issue, as in many other countries, will remain a problem, especially in view of the ongoing sanctions and the fact that the expansion of the Hungarian nuclear power plant (Paks II) will not be completed before 2030-2032. 2030-2032, which is why maintaining the TurkStream pipeline will be crucial.
Translated and edited by Alex Kada
