What’s Hungarian for “We Won!”: Matt Schlapp, Balázs Orbán

CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp hosted the acting Political Director of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Balázs Orbán, to a discussion at CPAC 2025 in Washington, DC. They speak about the liberal media’s subversive narrative of the leaders of their respective countries, the hypocrisy of liberal media, the dangers of mass illegal immigration, the war in Ukraine, and similarities in policy of President Trump and Prime Minister Orbán, and how Americans can “save the world”.

Schlapp welcomed Orbán to America, and Orbán congratulated Schlapp and the audience for the overwhelming victory in the recent 2024 election. “I think you saved your country. And did a great thing to Europe and the World”, says Orbán. Schlaap begins the exciting talk with the question of how to say, “Trump won and you know it!” in Hungarian. Schlapp highlights how there have been four other CPAC conferences in Hungary, and Orbán invites the audience to the next conference, and that “Budapest is safe and sound”. 

They go on to compare US President Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and how the media, particularly the Washington Post, paints Órban as a “dictator” or a “fascist dictator” and that he “rigs elections”. Schlapp then highlights the irony because, according to the media, “you can’t rig elections, but now you can rig elections”. 

Orbán argues that the liberal media like to lie and that they subvert the information to fit whatever is convenient for their agenda. As Schlapp says, Viktor Orbán is the leader of Europe, and similarly to Donald Trump, Orbán argues, the leftists target them because they are “a threat to their power structures” and secondly because they stand up for “the truth”. Luckily, according to Orbán, if the truth is on your side, it is only a matter of time before their actions that were once heavily criticized by the leftists will turn out to be true. Issues such as mass migration, according to Orbán, which the leftist media lauds and attacks Trump and Viktor Orbán for opposing, only need time to show how the effects are negative. 

Orbán goes on to highlight how the people of Hungary gave the government a mandate to restrict illegal mass migration through referendum, despite the leftist media backlash. The war in Ukraine, which both Orbán and Trump have demonstrated a desire to end, Orbán added, has also been attacked by the media. Schlapps adds that President Joe Biden rejected the idea of communication between the United States and Russia, despite being contacted repeatedly by Russia for negotiations. Orbán is dumbfounded as to how President Trump has been criticized by the liberal media for communicating with Russia to end the war and stop the killing because, “how can you make peace if you are not making communication with the other side?”. If you say you are working for peace, pointing to Biden, but there is no active communication, argues Orbán, “he is a liar”. 

Schlapp then moves the conversation to comparing the similarities between President Trump and Prime Minister Orbán. Orbán goes on to say that both “love their countries” and that to genuinely love your country is a defining feature of a great leader. Schlapp highlights how both leaders are not from the establishment, and do not have many allies in the media or nonprofits, but both have had a lasting impact because they have established institutions and organizations across the media and organizations like CPAC that have been a great ally for the “truth”. Orbán adds to this, saying that Trump and Orbán are a force of healing because they “love their countries” and want them to prosper. Schlapp then agrees, highlighting how Trump and Orbán have, despite being attacked for it, supported happy families, the education of children, and the prosperity of their countries. He argues that the illegal immigration supported by the leftist media endangers the family and the safety of the country, highlighting America First policies. Orbán emphasizes the importance of “creating an environment which maintains freedom of decision for everyone but also that advocates policies: proper family policy, churches are not prosecuted, they are welcomed, and the ‘woke agenda’ is out of schools”. 

Orbán then welcomes the audience encouraging them to visit Hungary as it has “good food and is a conservative safe space” Schlapps then ends asking Orbán how his governments’ collaboration with America and CPAC can change the world. Orbán answers, “ my message is America is back…and don't count on the liberals you have friends all around the world and if you find your friends you can save Western civilization together”.

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