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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

Make America Hungary

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

NBC News

News, Society & Culture

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Orban’s Hungary serves as striking foreshadowing for Trump’s playbook in America.

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0:00.0

I am an old-fashioned freedom fighter, the leader of a country that is under the siege of progressive liberals day by day.

0:15.2

In 2022, CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, invited Hungarian Prime Minister and autocrat, Victor Orban, to speak in Dallas.

0:25.8

In Hungary, we had to build not just a physical wall on our borders and the financial wall around our families, but the legal wall around our children,

0:40.3

to protect them from the gender ideology that targets them.

0:45.9

It was a shocking moment.

0:48.8

An autocrat was invited and essentially honored

0:51.7

at one of the country's most well-known conservative gatherings.

0:56.1

Orban is the longest serving prime minister in Europe. He describes his governance as illiberal

1:01.8

democracy, though a lot of people just call it a dictatorship. Orban's hardline policies extend to

1:07.8

law and order, immigration, purges of so-called gender ideology and

1:12.6

wokeness in schools, and repression of minorities, LGBTQ communities, and the press.

1:19.4

I am here to tell you that our values, the nation, Christian roots, and family can be successful in the political battlefield.

1:32.4

Perhaps our story can help you keep America great.

1:37.1

Maybe not that surprisingly, Donald Trump is a fan of Victor Orban's work.

1:42.2

Last year, giving the keynote address at CPAC, Trump made his admiration public.

1:47.2

Victor Orban, somebody I respect greatly.

1:50.1

A lot of people respect him.

1:51.7

Tough guy, smart guy.

1:53.6

Beyond the compliments and invites to Mar-a-Lago, there's the irrefutable connection between

1:58.8

Prime Minister Victor Orban and his brand of authoritarianism

2:02.6

and President Donald Trump and his desire for authoritarianism.

2:08.1

Just like Orban, Trump is seeking to remake America's political system,

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