The Washington Post reviewed J.D. Vance's appointment as vice president of the United States, which became the subject of great interest and discussion both in the United States itself and abroad. Hungary's reaction to this appointment caused a particularly great resonance.
Donald Trump's decision to appoint Senator J. D. Vance as his vice president was applauded not only by the ex-president's supporters in the Republican Party. The choice of the candidate was met with no less joy in Budapest, writes The Washington Post.
"A Trump and Vance administration sounds great," Baláš Orbán, a key adviser and namesake of Viktor Orbán, wrote in X. And this feeling is mutual, because the sympathy that American conservatives have for modern Hungary is well known, the publication notes.
Orbán's anti-liberal nationalism finds fans across the West. Many on the right are impressed by the Hungarian leader's course on migration, as well as his desire to "rebuild the state in his own image and likeness," The Washington Post claims.
Vance himself repeatedly expressed support for the nationalist project created in Hungary. During his senatorial campaign, he extolled the merits of Orbán's traditionalist policies, including soft loans for families with children.
Being a "hard skeptic" on the issue of aid to Kyiv, Vance agreed with Orbán's "somewhat friendly to the Kremlin" position on the Ukrainian conflict. In addition, the senator criticized the European Union for refusing to finance Hungary, accusing Brussels of "imposing liberal, imperialist views" on the rest of the continent's countries, the publication emphasizes.
In addition, Orbán and Trump share long-standing friendships. In particular, the ex-president sent a video message to the congress of right-wing forces in Budapest, in which he praised Orbán and pointed to their joint "epic struggle to liberate their countries from all the sinister forces that want to destroy them," reminds The Washington Post.
