Trump says Péter Magyar will “do a good job” after Orbán defeat

US President Donald Trump said on April 14 in an interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl that he was not concerned about Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat in Hungary and that he likes the country’s new prime minister, Péter Magyar.

“I think ​the new man's going to do a ⁠good job — he's a good man,” Reuters quotes him as saying.

Trump also said he did not know whether anything would have changed if he had travelled to Hungary instead of Vice President JD Vance to campaign for Orbán.

“He was behind ‌substantially,” Trump said. “I wasn’t that involved in this one. Viktor’s a good man, though.”

Trump had backed Orbán ahead of the vote and even briefly spoke at an election rally in Hungary last week, when Vance called his boss shortly after stepping off the stage.

However, after 16 years in power, Orbán lost office as Hungarians backed the centrist course proposed by his centre-right rival Péter Magyar in record numbers.