"Mar-a-Lago is calling Budapest!" - Post-election in the provinces

How the realignment promised by the bleak week of November 5 is being received in the colonies

I prefer to get my news from Mandiner, a “conservative”, somewhat clickbaity portal that features opinions from all sides. It’s a bit like what Drudge Report used to be.

There’s no analogy in the Western press that I can think of right now; instead of hiding critical opinions from the opposition, they get a sadistic joy of sticking them on the front page, along with hawkish pro-government op eds. Comments are enabled for all the articles, unmoderated.

It’s a chaotic mess where every opinion has a chance to shine, where your bubble is never safe from prickling criticism, as it should be; an adult should be able to navigate such an unsafe public square of ideas without janitorial supervision.

When I open Mandiner, I experience a freedom that is long lost elsewhere.

Orban makes the top 5

Orban makes the top 5 in Trump’s president elect call list.

Some experts were previously concerned that the Hungarian Prime Minister was taking too many risks by openly and firmly supporting Trump throughout the campaign.

Mar-a-Lago is calling Budapest! We have had our first phone conversation with President Trump after the elections. We have great plans! – wrote Viktor Orbán on his official Facebook page.

Emmanuel Macron, President of France; Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine; Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy; Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom – and Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary. The exact order is not public, but what is known is that Donald Trump was the first to call them following his remarkable success in the presidential election.

Hungarian conservatives were extremely exhausted by the hostility from our Western allies, to the point of giving up their Atlanticism and beginning to worship the Chechens, so their childlike joy at this turn of events is understandable, and as an Atlanticist myself, a relief:

All of this proves that after Trump's victory, Hungary has ascended to a new level in world politics. It is clear that Donald Trump did not contact Viktor Orbán first among the leaders because Hungary is in the same league as France, Italy, or the United Kingdom, nor because it plays a significant role in certain global processes, such as the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Trump called the Hungarian Prime Minister because he had supported him in the campaign from the very beginning, opposing all kinds of protests, accusations, and opposition. Now they can finally continue their work with their closest European ally.

Orban not only supported Trump in this campaign, he was also among the very few in 2016 who openly did so. An old love story is coming to fruition, again.

Furthermore, after Trump's victory, Hungary is among the few nations capable of establishing connections with the three leading world powers: the United States, Russia, and China.

Which is a major self-inflicted defeat by the rest of Europe in 1D chess, as I pointed it out previously.

Some comments from the top:

Oh dear libtards, the isolated Doctor Prime Minister is being called by the democratically elected president of the world's leading superpower, and we're laughing ourselves into shitting over you, you bastards.

As it turns out, no matter how strong the sovereigntist streak is in Hungarian conservatives, getting a confirmatory pat on the back from a foreign superpower feels just as sweet to them as it is to the opposition.

Let them have it, it’s their week!

Well, this is really something. There are about three hundred and a few countries in the world, and among them, at least 200 are definitely larger than us. The communists in Brussels and at home are getting strokes.

Good point from a citizen-journalist, the short list’s real value is in the longer list of absentees.

Scholz now wants to be in Viktor's place.

Among which the most prominent European one is the German chancellor.

Why didn't he call the Romanian Prime Minister? After all, they have been supporting Trump since he won the election.

There is a not entirely unfounded Hungarian joke that Romanians always betray their allies when the course of a war turns unfavorable.

Mandiner has already reported the Romanian congratulations to Trump as if Romania has switched sides, again, as their current government used to be 100% subservient to Biden’s state department.

If you’re offended by this harmless joke, please

I appreciate that those who are now whining and railing against this would vote for Péter Magyar, because Manfred Weber patted him on the cheek

Orban has a new domestic rival in the long line of Caligula’s horses whose primary quality is that they’re Not Orban. It’s a story I won’t cover because it’s tabloid crap.

The point of this comment is that Orban’s former friend and EPP big wig Manfred Weber supports the latest Not Orban, which was celebrated by the opposition as a sign that Not Orban is not isolated like Real Orban.

Now Real Orban has a bigger elephant behind his back with Trump.

Talking about the “isolation” meme:

Hungary has once again isolated itself so much that, among the EU member states, we have the best relations with China, Russia, and from January 20, also with the USA.

I mean, where’s the lie?

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Cover image: Somewhere in Hungary, Google Street View from a bleak period, 2011