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Vance Delivers Remarks in Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 7, 2026

April 7, 2026 · The White House · 1:07:02

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What happened

Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks in Budapest, Hungary, on April 7, 2026, at a patriots’ event ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary election, after an introduction celebrating Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — in office for five terms across 20 years, as the host stated it — as the leader who stood up to the globalist establishment. Mid-event, President Trump joined by phone: “I just want to tell you I’m a big fan of Viktor. I’m with him all the way. The United States is with him all the way… You have a man that kept your country strong, and he kept your country good, and you don’t have problems with all of the problems that so many other countries have because they let their countries be invaded, and you don’t have that problem because of Viktor Orbán.”

Vance then took the stage to the same errand: “We’ve got to get Viktor Orbán re-elected as prime minister of Hungary, don’t we?” His argument ran on borders, energy, and Brussels: “We defend our borders because we know that it’s the most vulnerable among us who suffer when our streets are given over to chaos and violence… We believe in energy security because we don’t want the least of us to be unable to afford to heat their homes or to drive themselves to work.” To the European press’s question — “do Trump and Vance, do they have something against Europe?” — he answered: “Let me be clear. We love Europe. We love it. How can we not? We were birthed from this continent.” He closed the historical arc in Ohio: Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth’s American tour, whose proudest reception, Vance said, came in his own hometown of Cincinnati.

Why it matters

The Budapest remarks are the Vice President’s fullest statement of the administration’s Europe doctrine delivered on European soil — sovereignty, borders, and energy security as solidarity rather than estrangement — made as an explicit campaign intervention for an allied prime minister days before his election. It is recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub with the same day’s Orbán press conference.

Scoreboard watch

The endorsement as stated — the President’s “with him all the way” and the Vice President’s re-election call — is recorded here against the Hungarian election result that followed.

Sources: The White House, “Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Budapest, Hungary,” Budapest, Hungary, April 7, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by the Vice President, by the President on the call, and by the event host.