Dec. 9 (UPI) — Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, met Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Rep. Mike Waltz at the U.S. president-elect’s Florida resort on Friday, the European leader said online.
“The future has begun!” Orban said in a statement on X, which included pictures of him meeting Musk, owner of X and the world’s richest man, and Waltz.
Musk, who has grown to become a close advisor to Trump, has been tapped by the president-elect to co-lead a yet-to-be-formed department on government efficiency. And Waltz has been nominated by Trump to be his national security advisor in his incoming administration.
Details about the meeting were not made public.
Orban has been a vocal and long-time supporter of Trump, and the meeting comes amid his deepening isolation in Europe where he is criticized by world leaders over the democratic backsliding of Hungary under his rule, opposition to military aid to Ukraine and close ties to President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
The meeting is the third this year between Trump and Orban at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach.
The pair met last at the resort in July, after which Orban’s spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs, said the two leaders discussed the Ukraine-Russia war and that Trump is “going to solve it!”
Following their first meeting in March, Orban told Hungarian news channel M1 that Trump had a plan to end the war, which had his support.
He also declared that Trump “will not give a single penny to the Ukrainian-Russian war, therefore the war will end.”
Uncertainty hangs over the future of U.S. support of the nearly three-year-old war with Trump to retake the White House next month.
The Biden administration is seeking to surge military aid to Ukraine ahead of Trump taking over the White House next month. On Saturday, the Pentagon announced a new package of lethal assistance to Ukraine that is valued at nearly $1 billion.