Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said President Trump’s recent meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shows that Trump “wants to be a dictator.”
“I think you’re looking at a second term for Donald Trump… in that he wants to be strong, he can be tough on his own people, he doesn’t have goodwill towards his allies, he doesn’t have goodwill towards his own people. “In terms of not showing, and you know, not protecting people like in Ukraine, he wants to be a dictator,” Grisham said. Said He said this in an interview with CNN.
President Biden grilled President Trump about his meeting with Eastern European leaders at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
“Do you know who he’s meeting with at Mar-a-Lago today?” Biden said at a campaign event in Pennsylvania. “Hungary’s Mr. Orbán has said flatly that he does not believe democracy works and that he wants a dictatorship.”
Grisham also said that he has “seen many bilateral meetings with world leaders,” and that President Trump has been a leader in authoritarian tendencies such as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He said he had “always looked forward to talking” with leaders who had been criticized in the past. Orbán.
Orbán visited Trump at his home in Florida and posted a photo of them together on Facebook.
“Meeting with President Donald Trump. Make America Great Again, Mr. President!” the photo was captioned.
The former president has frequently praised Orbán, making him an important figure on the American right.
“Europe has a great man, a great leader, in Viktor Orbán,” President Trump said at a rally in January. “He is the prime minister of Hungary. He is a very great leader and a very strong man. Some people don’t like him because he is too strong.”
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