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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
(6,094 posts)efhmc
(16,756 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,905 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
(18,680 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
(76,905 posts)Inflation is worse now, energy costs are WAY up, job market is tanking, but he knows what a good economy is?
Irish_Dem
(81,630 posts)regnaD kciN
(27,664 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
(25,487 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(136,089 posts)We have our own problems to deal with.
Skittles
(171,985 posts)that corrupt POS being out of power would be nice.....ditto for us
AloeVera
(4,300 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
(11,955 posts)share American values?
surfered
(13,660 posts)I dont remember him running on Make Hungary Great Again.
Boo1
(386 posts)all that interested in bringing the Trump Economy to their land.
Irish_Dem
(81,630 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,630 posts)fujiyamasan
(1,817 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,630 posts)Every single thing that made it great he must destroy.
Emrys
(9,148 posts)See the OP here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221167004
Renew Deal
(85,239 posts)Iran
Argentina
Hungary
USA