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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump vows to boost Hungary economy if Orban wins vote
US President Donald Trump made a late intervention in Hungary's bitter election campaign on Friday, as nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban battles for votes against a pro-European opponent leading him in polls.
Trump vowed to bring US "economic might" to Hungary if Orban's party secures a victory over his arch-rival Peter Magyar in Sunday's election.
The comments added late drama to the campaign finale that saw Orban and Magyar trade accusations of dirty dealing.
Orban, who has run Hungary for 16 years and is close to Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, faces an unprecedented challenge with opinion polls putting Magyar's conservative Tisza party well ahead.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-vows-boost-hungary-economy-222543196.html
Hungary and Argentina are two countries the GOP wants America to be more like.
yellow dahlia
(6,171 posts)efhmc
(16,817 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,977 posts)...(I know, a tough ask) how would Trump help another country's economy when he's only shown an inability to sustain the 2 good economies he inherited?
It's not like he has a track record to be envied.
magicarpet
(18,907 posts)... America First Policy in action ?
US taxpayer's dollars prop up the failed economy of Viktor Orban in Hungary ?
America Last,... we don't need no health-care. Medicare, food stamps for the impoverished, or child care, etc. etc. etc.
ProfessorGAC
(76,977 posts)Inflation is worse now, energy costs are WAY up, job market is tanking, but he knows what a good economy is?
Irish_Dem
(81,863 posts)regnaD kciN
(27,672 posts)Note that I dont ask whether he will get fewer votes than his opponent. That doesnt matter. Im talking about him being declared the winner tomorrow night. I reckon it a virtual certainty.
Midnight Writer
(25,550 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(136,342 posts)We have our own problems to deal with.
Skittles
(172,172 posts)that corrupt POS being out of power would be nice.....ditto for us
AloeVera
(4,323 posts)It's important for the world, as someone else put it. The black eye to Trump and Trumpism alone would benefit the U.S. - and the world
Doodley
(11,985 posts)share American values?
surfered
(13,796 posts)I dont remember him running on Make Hungary Great Again.
Boo1
(395 posts)all that interested in bringing the Trump Economy to their land.
Irish_Dem
(81,863 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,863 posts)fujiyamasan
(1,879 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,863 posts)Every single thing that made it great he must destroy.
Emrys
(9,168 posts)See the OP here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221167004
Renew Deal
(85,265 posts)Iran
Argentina
Hungary
USA