Rubio Plugs Orban's Bid For Another Term After April Elections During A Visit To Budapest
Source: Huff Post/AP
Feb 16, 2026, 03:11 AM EST | Updated 2 hours ago
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday enthusiastically endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s bid to serve a fifth straight term after upcoming elections in April, emphasizing during a visit to Budapest the strong personal relationship between the nationalist leader and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Orbán, who has led Hungary since 2010, is one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in the European Union, and has actively curried the U.S. president’s favor leading up to the April 12 vote in which he will face the toughest challenge of his last 16 years in power.
Rubio was in the Hungarian capital for meetings with Orbán and his government where he signed an agreement on U.S.-Hungarian civilian nuclear cooperation that includes the possible purchase of compact nuclear reactors — known as small modular reactors or SMRs — as well as U.S.-supplied nuclear fuel and spent fuel storage technology.
At a news conference in Budapest, Rubio said U.S.-Hungary relations — which both he and Orbán described as experiencing a “golden age” under Trump — go beyond mere diplomatic cooperation.
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This Russophile-type olive branch to Hungary while Hungary has been balking at Ukraine getting EU membership, is triggering a red siren.
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the only reason why Rubio is in power is because the Supreme Court granted his buddy power and the punk voted not to impeach that orange hair asshole not once but twice............and then to nominate him and he got confirmed by enablers from the maga senate............Orban has blood on his hand.............look no further east that of Ukraine and his leaning and sleeping with that asshole Putin and he is suppose to be a NATO ally ......shit...........and then when he comes and goes to Mar A Lago.........he gives that orange traitor pointers of turning this country into what he did in........... Hungary........... 
