Wochenlang prahlte Viktor Orban in ungarischen Medien mit dem Abkommen, das er mit den USA zur finanziellen Absicherung getroffen hatte. Es stellt sich heraus, dass es keine Sache ist – so der US-Präsident selbst.

[He said it with his face.](https://youtu.be/rVV1tbNZf_A?t=705)

Just pointing it out, because they’ve been also lying about [what’s going on with the sanctions](https://telex.hu/english/2025/11/13/szijjarto-exemption-from-sanctions-valid-as-long-as-viktor-orban-is-prime-minister-and-donald-trump-is-president). Do we get exemption for one year or indefinitely? They dismissed CNN/BBC/Reuters as relying on anonymous sources, but when the [Secretary of State said the same thing with his face](https://youtu.be/73-4NHpfZpQ?t=1944) they dismissed that as well saying they made a deal with the President.

The thing is Hungarian state sponsored propaganda machine made a huge deal out of this visit, with minute by minute updates, articles for every statement, speculation, and so independent media couldn’t avoid talking about it for days either.

The delegation itself was practically the whole hungarian government and a large group of hand-picked right-wing „journalists“ and „influencers“ (propagandists).

All for what initially was sold as a massive deal and cooperation, that is increasingly turning out to be little more than a photo op and a handful of trump-signed maga hats.

Bullshitters bullshitting bullshitters?

**“No, I didn’t promise him, but he certainly asked for it,” the U.S. president said about a mooted financial lifeline for Budapest.** 

U.S. President Donald Trump told POLITICO he did not offer a financial lifeline to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, contradicting his longtime ally’s claims that the two struck a deal.  

Orbán traveled to Washington last month to meet the American leader and said [after the visit](https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-viktor-orban-donald-trump-argentina-elections-eu-money-finances/) that the U.S. had agreed to provide Budapest with a “financial shield.”  

“No, I didn’t promise him, but he certainly asked for it,” Trump said in an interview with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns for a special episode of The Conversation, which aired Tuesday. 

When pressed on whether Budapest could ultimately receive the rescue package, Trump ducked the question and praised Orbán for doing “a very good job” on holding back immigration. “He allows nobody in his country,” the Republican leader said. 

Orbán, a populist-nationalist who is an icon of the global right wing, faces a challenge to his prolonged grip on power in next spring’s national election from an ascendant opposition and amid a stagnant Hungarian economy.  

Budapest under Orbán has long feuded with the EU over the bloc’s migration and other policies, leading to Brussels freezing funds earmarked for Hungary and leveling huge fines. 

“I have agreed with the (U.S.) president, and we shook hands on this, that should Hungary encounter any financial difficulties, we could use one of the four or five internationally known, transparent and visible facilities,” Orbán [told Hungarian media](https://www.reuters.com/world/us-financial-shield-could-be-worth-up-20-billion-hungarys-orban-says-2025-11-11/) after his White House visit last month, adding the options included a currency swap line or a flexible credit line. 

The statement triggered questions from Péter Magyar, leader of Hungary’s opposition, which is leading the ruling Fidesz party in the polls. “Why did Orbán secretly negotiate a huge bailout package?” he railed.  

Trump recently deployed the U.S. Treasury to help prop up an ideological ally ahead of a crucial election, after he [approved a bailout package](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/25/trump-argentina-milei-bessent-republicans-bailout-00581449) for Argentina’s bureaucracy-slashing leader Javier Milei. 

That intervention, organized by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, included direct U.S. purchases of Argentine pesos and a $20 billion currency-swap agreement giving Buenos Aires access to dollars. 

Milei’s party subsequently won a decisive victory in midterm elections, allowing the chainsaw-wielding libertarian, whom Trump endorsed, to press ahead with his economic overhaul of the country. Trump celebrated the outcome, saying the effort had “made a lot of money for the United States,” while Bessent likewise said the U.S. investment had “turned a profit.” 

Point is, that Orban has sold this visit like he did in the hungarian state media, and now Trump denying this is not going to be in the state media, so Orban’s followers (the low educated, and the elderly)not going to know/care about the whole thing.This is how Hungary works.They don’t understand any other languages but their own anyway.