Trump sends video to CPAC Hungary, says they will meet soon, PM Orbán announced 4-step program

“We want a Christian culture, schools based on a national principles, streets and neighbourhoods free from fear, and we want to be proud of our nations; this is the plan of the patriots,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest on Thursday, adding that Ukraine should not be allowed to become a member of the European Union.

Trump sends video and his greetings to CPAC Hungary and PM Orbán

In a video message played at the beginning of the CPAC Hungary 2025 and recorded in the Oval Office of the White House, President Trump congratulated for organizing CPAC Hungary to Miklós Szánthó, the head of Hungary’s Center for Fundamental Rights, and Matt Schlapp, the political director of the White House. Trump said he loved and respected Hungary and CPAC, like PM Orbán. “He is a great man and highly respected by everybody. He has done a brilliant job of leading, and he is a very very special person”, Trump added.

He said CPAC represents what they would like to offer for the United States: no to migration, law and order and safety. “I’ll see you soon”, he concluded.

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Peace and patriotism

“We want peace; we don’t want a new eastern front, and we don’t need Ukraine’s European Union membership, either,” he said, adding that fast-tracking Ukraine’s accession was “the convenient pretext for the wartime reorganisation of Europe”.

Opening the two-day event, Orbán said “many of Europe’s and America’s strongest, patriotic and sovereigntist leaders” were attending the conference.

“They are the toughest, most committed and most experienced leaders who have been fighting for their homelands in international politics, and who have been subject to multiple attacks, rudeness and smear campaigns … they know that there is no victory without suffering,” he said, adding that if Europe’s liberals were to receive “just half of those attacks … they would run crying and hide behind progressive journalists”.

Welcoming participants, Orbán highlighted Matt Schlapp, the president of CPAC Foundation. Schlapp, he said, “recognises central Europe as the source for conservative renewal and realises that what can be done in Hungary on the small scale, could be done big in America.”

Heroes in Europe and beyond

Referring to Irakli Kobakhidze, the prime minister of Georgia, Orbán said he was “a hero of the international patriotic movement” who had won his country’s election “against the whole liberal world” and achieved “the greatest GDP growth in the world”, while “twenty percent of his country is under the paw of the Russian bear”. The Georgian PM “managed to prevent Brussels from forcing Georgia into a war, he would not allow Georgia to become Ukraine number two,” Orbán said.

The prime minister called Hristijan Mickoski, his North Macedonian counterpart, a “captain protecting Europe’s southern borders against migration”, adding that he had won his country’s election “while the whole of Brussels supported his opponent”.

Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, is “the toughest of Europe’s leaders and has made the greatest comeback”, Orbán said. Referring to the armed attack against Fico, he said it had been committed by “a coaxed, incited liberal gang”.

Orbán greeted Andrej Babis as “Czechia’s former and future prime minister”, saying they had worked for years together in Brussels “against the pro-migration prime ministers”. He said Hungry could not have been made “a migrant-free country” without Babis’s support.

Orbán called Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s VOX party, “a hero” and said patriots in Spain were suffering from “the most brutal oppression”, adding that VOX would be in government “if competition were fair” in Spain.

Orbán made a special mention of former Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, and expressed his support for Karol Nawrocki, the conservative candidate in the upcoming second round of Poland’s presidential election. He said developments in Poland were “unbelievable”, with “Brussels tolerating and supporting the trampling of all European rules and constitutional principles.” He said “the treatment of Poles and their PiS party” was “unprecedentedly shameful”. “The Brussels leadership should step down for that alone,” he added.

Germans, Austrians, Dutch

Orbán greeted Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany’s AfD party, who represents the Europe of Sovereign Nations party group at the conference. Orban added that the group’s main opponent was Manfred Weber, whom he called “Hungarophobic, petty and vengeful”. Referring to Weidel, Orban said “it is good to see that there are decent Germans who love their homeland more than Brussels.”

Concerning Herbert Kickl, Orbán said the post of Austrian chancellor “was stolen” from the leader of the FPO party. “Politics is not always fair but there is a moral balance; the time for Kickl will come and Austria will return to the club of patriots,” he added.

Orbán also referred to Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch PVV party, saying the politician’s life was in “constant danger” and that he was “high up in the blacklist of fanatics”.

Trump tornado

Meanwhile, Orbán said that “the presidency of Donald Trump had brought about a civilisational shift and “restored hope to the world”. Orban noted that he had predicted Trump’s victory at last year’s CPAC Hungary. “And he won it. Next year there’s an election in Hungary. Any further questions?” he said.

“Donald Trump won and the Trump tornado swept through the world,” Orbán said, adding that the US president had restored hope to the world.

“We won’t drown in a sea of woke and we won’t be overrun by migrants,” the prime minister said. “Donald Trump has restored the hope for normal life and peace,” he said, calling Trump’s victory the “biggest comeback the Western world has ever seen”.

“What a blow to the left,” Orbán said referring to Trump’s win, adding that “Trump has not only returned, he is doing what he pledged to do … I am amazed: is that possible? Is that possible in places other than Hungary?” Orban said.

The prime minister said Trump’s first one hundred days had been “a real truth serum” for not only America but the whole of the Western World. He praised Tump for his measures concerning illegal migration, banning the “gender decrees” and “critical racism”, as well as “the woke ideology” from the military.

The US president “set upon” the deep state, exposing the global liberal network, and it turned out that “everything they thought was true”. “The whole Soros empire stands naked before us, and its quite an ugly sight,” he said.

Orbán said “the light is finally shining into the darkest corners, and there is also a scream of alarm here in Hungary”. He noted that Hungary now has a new law that bans those involved in politics from accepting money from abroad.

Defeating the liberals

“The hope for peace has also returned,” he said, the hope that soon hundreds of people would not have to die on the front lines every day, and billions of dollars would no longer have to be spent on a war that could not be won.

The election victory of US President Donald Trump and the defeat of the liberals “is like a dream”, he said. “The United States can be saved and the American dream can return,” Orbán said, but the dream of the Europeans “has been stolen by Brussels”, leaving them with a “nightmare”, he added.

He said the dream of the Europeans was that if they joined forces there would be no more war and they could live in peace and prosperity. But Europeans did not feel safe in their own countries and they had become strangers where they were at home twenty years ago, he said. “This is not integration; this is an organised population exchange,” he added.

“Instead of European prosperity, businesses are going bankrupt because they are paying twice, four times as much for gas and electricity as in the United States,” Orbán said. He said the Green Deal, the green transition, was killing the economies, it was slowly becoming a parody.

“Now that we should be negotiating with a heavyweight US president about trade and tariffs, it turns out that Europe only has featherweight leaders,” Orbán said.

Two plans

He said European freedom was a thing of the past and a fierce power struggle was taking place, citing the cases of France’s Marine Le Pen, who was disqualified from the presidential race by a court ruling, and Italy’s Matteo Salvini, who was “dragged” to court, while Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party was under a national security procedure and the events of patriots were being violently disrupted.

The prime minister said left-wing thugs “are attacking the right-wingers”. US Vice President JD Vance “is right: they’re not threatening freedom in Europe from the outside; they want to overthrow it within,” he said.

“The whole place is teetering and crumbling; it needs to change. It cannot go on like this,” Orbán said.

He said two plans were on the table: one the liberal plan, the other the patriotic plan for Europe. The liberal plan considered the old Christian cultural model for Europe as outdated, and wanted to move beyond it, he added.

Orbán said the liberals had been working for decades on creating a new identity to replace Christianity and the nation. First, they came up with prosperity: let go of your traditions and Europe will become a world of happy and unlimited consumption, he said.

This did not work out, so then Europe became a continent of tolerance, “and we ended up having to hold the Belgian-Israeli football matches in Budapest instead of Brussels”, he said, adding that a new idea came after Trump’s victory.

War is the engine of the economy

Orbán said Europe wanted to be a stronghold of the global liberal empire and liberals were fleeing America to Brussels, adding that the main problem with Brussels was that had stuck to its pro-war stance even as the US finally shifted to a pro-peace position.

Under the liberal plan, he said, Europe must be centralised and sovereignty limited under the pretext of the war. A new, war-oriented economic model must be built under that plan, he added. “In their minds, war is the engine of the economy: joint indebtedness, joint control, a war chest and the key to this liberal plan is Ukraine,” he said.

Ukraine’s fast-tracked EU accession was a convenient excuse for the wartime reorganisation of Europe, Orbán said. The liberal plans led to a war-oriented, centralised and indebted Europe, “where there is no freedom, but there is obedience”.

Orbán’s 4-point plan

“We also have a plan: a patriotic plan which consists of four points,” he said.

“First, we want peace: we don’t want a new eastern front, so we don’t need Ukraine’s EU membership either,” he said.

“Second, we want sovereignty: we don’t want joint taxes or joint borrowing, we don’t want a central economic management and we don’t want our money to be sent to the war of a third country.”

Third, freedom “must be defended”, he said. “The freedom of politics, thinking and of opinion must be returned to the people.”

In fourth place, he called for Europe to be taken back from migrants.

European politics in the coming years would be about whether the patriotic or the liberal plan would prevail, he added.

Orbán hailed the success of the Patriots in the 2024 European Parliament election, saying that the three right-wing factions in the EP were now bigger than the European People’s Party’s group.

United the patriots stand

“By the time we get to the decisive battle, we have to be unified,” the prime minister said, adding that “everyone has to win at home first: the Czechs in the autumn, the Hungarians next spring and then the French.” It was after this, he said, that patriots could begin “taking back Brussels”.

“For this, we also need America and President Trump’s successful governance,” Orbán said.

“After America, we Europeans will also reclaim our dreams and occupy Brussels,” he said. “Let’s make Europe great again! Go Hungary! Go patriots!” the prime minister said, concluding his speech.