Trump Is Expected to Meet With Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, in Florida

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary will meet with former President Donald J. Trump in Florida on Thursday after the NATO summit in Washington, according to a Trump campaign official and a person close to the former president who was briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Mr. Trump has been a vocal supporter of Mr. Orban, and the meeting comes after a series of others by the Hungarian leader this month, including one with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, that caught many by surprise.

Hungary took over the European Union’s rotating presidency at the start of July with the promise to “make Europe great again” — echoing the “Make America Great Again” slogan of Mr. Trump, whom Mr. Orban has endorsed for the U.S. presidency.

Mr. Trump, who has a history of praising authoritarian leaders, often cites Mr. Orban’s support on the campaign trail. The two men met in March at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, where Mr. Trump lauded Mr. Orban as a “boss” because he did not brook political dissent. Both men are aligned in their anti-immigration views and their skepticism of NATO.

Although the E.U. presidency is largely a clerical position, Mr. Orban has engaged in a flurry of meetings with world leaders since taking over the position.

On July 2, he made an unexpected visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. The move followed in the footsteps of other European leaders, but was one that Mr. Orban, an outlier in the European Union for his support of Russia and other issues, was known to have been avoiding.

Then on July 5, Mr. Orban traveled to Russia, meeting with Mr. Putin at the Kremlin for more than two hours. It was a rare trip to Russia by