Former President Donald J. Trump will meet privately with Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, at Mr. Trump’s membership in Florida subsequent week, based on an individual briefed on the plans.
Mr. Orban is a right-wing nationalist who has waged an aggressive marketing campaign in opposition to immigration and has declared that the West “is at war with itself.” He is a longtime ally of Mr. Trump and has shut ties to the populist conservative motion within the United States.
Mr. Trump has steadily praised Mr. Orban at rallies and in speeches since leaving the White House. Their assembly, which is scheduled to happen at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Beach subsequent Friday, underscores the diploma to which Mr. Trump has tried to determine himself as a type of president-in-exile.
It comes as Mr. Trump is closing in on the Republican presidential nomination and is getting ready for the final election marketing campaign in opposition to President Biden, who has had a cold relationship with the Hungarian prime minister.
The White House’s National Security Council mentioned it was unaware of any plans for Mr. Orban to go to Mr. Biden on his journey.
A spokesman for Mr. Trump didn’t reply to an e mail in search of remark.
Mr. Orban has been at odds with the leaders of different NATO and European Union nations over the struggle in Ukraine and has been assailed by critics as steering Hungary towards authoritarianism. Like Mr. Trump, he has typically appeared sympathetic to or admiring of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Hungary has hosted conferences of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, which has change into an extension of Mr. Trump’s MAGA motion, and Mr. Orban appeared on the group’s assembly in Texas two years in the past.
Mr. Orban sought the upcoming assembly, based on the individual briefed on the plans. The two males first developed a relationship when Mr. Trump was president, and Mr. Trump endorsed Mr. Orban for a fourth time period in 2022.
In a speech earlier this month, Mr. Orban successfully endorsed Mr. Trump, casting the election within the United States as a part of a world referendum on what sort of authorities democracies ought to select.
“The year of 2024 could be a watershed: a ‘super election’ year, when people in Brussels, America, India and a dozen other places will decide what leadership they want in the current of global economic transformation and its crashing ice floes,” he mentioned.
He added, “We cannot interfere in other countries’ elections, but we would very much like to see President Donald Trump return to the White House and make peace here in the eastern half of Europe. It is time for another ‘Make America Great Again’ presidency in the United States.”
Their final assembly was in 2022 at Mr. Trump’s golf membership in Bedminster, N.J., after which Mr. Trump posted on his social media web site, “Great spending time with my friend, Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary. We discussed many interesting topics — few people know as much about what is going on in the world today. We were also celebrating his great electoral victory in April.”
That assembly got here on the heels of a speech Mr. Orban gave wherein he derided nations with “mixed race,” an deal with that was extensively condemned as echoing Nazi rhetoric.
“We are not a mixed race,” Mr. Orban mentioned within the speech, including, “and we do not want to become a mixed race.”
Mr. Trump, who has been broadly criticized for undermining democracy and is underneath federal indictment on allegations he illegally tried to subvert the peaceable switch of energy to Mr. Biden, has espoused the same anti-immigrant message. He started saying in speeches in latest months that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, doubling down on the road when he was criticized for language with echoes of white supremacy and Hitler.
Mr. Trump typically describes Mr. Orban — who has been criticized for democratic backsliding in Hungary underneath his rule and who has made statements in opposition to Ukraine because the Russian invasion — as a “great leader.”
“There is a great man, a great leader in Europe — Viktor Orban,” Mr. Trump mentioned in a speech final month. “He is the prime minister of Hungary. He is a very great leader, a very strong man. Some people don’t like him because he’s too strong.”
Peter Baker contributed reporting.
