Former U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán share the view that wars are unnecessary and costly during an appearance on the Tim Pool podcast.
“If you look at Viktor Orbán, he says we don’t want to see wars, I don’t want to see wars. I was in no wars other than we finished a war with ISIS and we completed it, 100 percent complete,” Trump said on the podcast on X.
“But I don’t want to see wars. I think it’s so horrible, so unnecessary and so costly in terms of lives and money, in that order, and destroying these countries,” Trump said.
“You know, you’re destroying culture: When you look at Ukraine, that would have never happened if I were president. You look at the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, (it) wouldn’t have happened.”
Trump also noted that during his presidency, neither China nor Russia had a free hand in shaping world events to their liking:
“You know, Viktor Orbán of Hungary, you know, the leader they call a strongman, who cares if he’s a strongman or not a strong man. He is a very powerful guy. He said the problem the world has is that Donald Trump is no longer president. When he was president, China didn’t play around, Russia didn’t play around, nobody played around. And we had no problems. Today, the whole world is on fire.”
Orbán has promoted a pro-peace view since the outbreak of war between Ukraine and Russia, arguing that it is destroying Ukraine demographically and tearing families apart.
