Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Says Trump ‘Won’t Give A Penny’ Military Aid To Ukraine

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Donald Trump would stop giving military aid to Ukraine.

During an interview with a state-run media organization in Hungary, M1 on March 10, Orbán told the television presenter Tünde Volf-Nagy that Trump “has a very clear vision, which is hard to disagree with.”

According to the Hungarian prime minister, Trump “won’t give a penny to the Ukrainian-Russian war.”

“This is why the war will end because it’s obvious that Ukraine cannot stand on its own two feet,” he added. “If the Americans don’t give money and weapons and the Europeans don’t give them, then this war is over. And if the Americans don’t provide money, the Europeans will be unable to finance this war on their own, and then the war will be over.”

“President Trump isn’t yet the president, but in the U.S. legislature today, his party is preventing the Democrats from being able to give money to the war,” he then stated. “And the president – President Trump – says that if he comes back, he won’t even take such an initiative, and he won’t give a penny. That will be the end of the war.”

“It’s another matter how and under what conditions – after the ceasefire – it should be concluded with,” he added.

He also said that Hungary must start by making peace and that they “have the means to do so.”

“And [Trump] also says he doesn’t want to finance Europe’s security instead of the Europeans themselves: if the Europeans are afraid of the Russians, or want a high level of security in general, then let them pay for it,” he went on to say. “Either they build their own army, their own equipment, or if they use the Americans to do it, they should pay the price to the Americans, the price of security. So he speaks directly and clearly. I’ve heard him speak at NATO summits, back in his presidency, which started in 2016, when he made that clear. He said it to us.”

“The Americans won’t pay the bills for us, the security bills,” he claimed. “We – all of us, all European countries – have to contribute our share, financially as well. We must have our own army, our own assets, and we must be able to defend our own country or contribute to joint military capabilities as part of an alliance. This is a heavy burden. The money we spend on the military today could be spent elsewhere.”

“We did that for a while, by the way: Hungary, too, quietly spent much less than the actual cost of our security,” Orbán recalled. “But that era is over. The Ukrainian-Russian war has shown that we cannot sneak around now: security must be created, and this has a cost, a price, and it must be paid for out of the Hungarian budget.”

Orbán acknowledged that these changes will not be easy but he believes that “from their point of view, the Americans are right,” and that Hungarians’ “own point of view is that” we must have security, and they “need to create it” themselves with the help of allies.

On March 8, Trump met with Orbán at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

While delivering a readout of the meeting, the Trump campaign stated that these two “met today at Mar-a-Lago to discuss a wide range of issues affecting Hungary and the United States.” These issues included the extreme significance of “strong and secure borders to protect the sovereignty of each nation.”

In May 2022, Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., complained about a $33 billion aid package that Joe Biden asked Congress to approve sending to Ukraine during an important moment of the Russia-Ukraine War as Russian forces moved eastward in this country.

Most of the funding, about $20 billion, would go towards supplying arms, $8 billion for economic aid and $3 billion for humanitarian aid.

In December 2023, Trump praised Orbán, who had called him the savior of the Western world.