Trump wants US to be 'Orbanised' populist illiberal democracy

[@eahofer]

Do some research. HU is next to the bottom of most European league tables. The government has ensured they cannot be dislodged. There's no money to pay for teachers, social security benefits nor retirement. And Orban cannot blame others, he's held the reins for over a decade. The exodus of young people is staggering as there aren't many opportunities except for the inner circle.

[@joedoe9056]

@eahofer don't be a lefturd.

[@user-tj7nb9fu9t]

No ,the EU is blackmailing Hungary by not giving them access to Eu fonds

[@adz951]

​@@joedoe9056Be pro-fascist instead!

[@joedoe9056]

@adz951 for a lefturd even a normal conservative guy will be always a far-right or a pro-fascist. So just give me a break.

[@tamasvarga67]

@@user-tj7nb9fu9tOrbán stole the EU funds to enrich his family and inner circles. It was time for the EU to stop funding Orbán’s mafia.

[@SirGalahard]

Orbanized crime.

[@fredrikh9299]

Orban did nothing to Hungary and couldn't develop Hungary even with all EU support funds given. The EU should kick Hungary out if they elect him again.

[@chrimbus71]

That's democracy 😂😂😂

[@JunkerOnDrums]

vIctor oRbán must be thrown out of the EU and NATO!

[@chrimbus71]

@@JunkerOnDrums that's the EU spirit🤣🤣. The Franco German club hates everyone who doesn't agree with them. Be it Greece, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, and of course they despised Britain. The eu should be just France and Germany and Luxembourg

[@JunkerOnDrums]

@@chrimbus71 Sure comrade - your future is with pUtin/tRump fascism! Get lost 😂😂😂😂😂

[@tobewithyouhoo]

Someone who says on longer than two mandates is abusing democracy. That's not democracy.

[@t7s-b6x]

I don't think it'll be a problem. Trump is too disorbanised.

[@rhysperegrine5100]

But he's Hungary to learn

[@Mark-xv5lb]

Finally Times Radio figures out trump, or at least has someone on who does.

[@tommoclement]

A little too late. Rest of the world knew haw was an incompetent fool.

[@PrudentStudent666]

We want to be just like Hungry, the poorest country in the European Union but proud.

[@user-tj7nb9fu9t]

They are in the middle, Bulgaria Romania Slovenia Portugal are behind them..

[@mugenmugen9632]

Bulgaria is the poorest, propagandist.

[@cloudycolacorp]

@@mugenmugen9632 impressive doing better than somewhere that can't form a government at all

[@gazza2933]

They might be poor but I'm certain that they can spell.

[@FaithfulFumoFan23]

"If you stay poor nobody will want to come there" is the logic. It's all about keeping out foreigners that's what "MAGA" is actually all about.

[@timothykrause2327]

This is what it sounds like when your gravy train is drying up.

[@davidg3944]

Gravy train? You mean "the bar is OPEN" for the plutocrats and special interests. How you can look at musk buying the presidency for trump and claim such silliness shows the dementia of the Poor Right.

[@PaulHofer-y4t]

Is the Us next?

[@timothykrause2327]

If you read between the lines, there’s a super sneaky hidden message in there.

[@JaneSoole]

How can Trump expect putin to have respect for international law....if HE DOES NOT? Batty, entitled man. How I totally agree on Bush and Obama mistakes and Obama never did close Guantanemo Bay as promised did he?

[@barrywiles233]

"Make America Great Again" does not square with "Make Hungary Great for Once" . The EU needs to dissolve and reform excluding these autocratic states. By the way, there is no such thing as an "illiberal democracy" unless you believe that citizens want constant war at home. Wars are popular provided they don't mean bombs being dropped on your country.

[@beth12beth88]

Do not obey in advance...we are not doomed yet

[@Jake-cy3ev]

Putin's America.

[@martinheidegger517]

Goodbye Pax Americana. Friedman is right.

[@PappaLezlie]

Gratulálok Viktornak a világnépszerűséghez. Még egy kicsi és egy lapon leszel emlegetve Vlagyimir Vlagyiniroviccsal

[@miroslavolenjin3625]

This guy doesn't know that Serbia is not a member of EU.

[@kayholand_]

is this the only thing you took out of this??

[@sarahjessicafarter7383]

​@@kayholand_What a dim assumption.

[@Jake-cy3ev]

@@kayholand_ Rather important thing to know things like that if you want to be taken serious as an analyst😂

[@simonw1252]

And they never will be. You can thank Orban for that

[@GeoScorpion]

@@simonw1252 Orban has what to do with Serbia rather than Hungary? Clown.

[@gazza2933]

Is that like National Socialism? 🤔

[@paulmartin2429]

Meltdown

[@charlessmyth]

Austria and Slovenia stand in the way of Germany's direct access to the Adriatic and the Mediterranean . . . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@toddfulton2280]

TikTok America

[@charlessmyth]

Is Hungary and the near abroad to Germany, ready for a resurgent and revanchist Germany ??

[@eawharaeughueh-jz4bo]

America is not Hungary. The circumstances are different. There's significant opposition. His team is half incompetent. His plans could derail everything.

[@marisabenson1222]

I don't think the US is immune . Its system of justice and checks andnbalances has thus far failed.

[@Lambchopsalad]

All I hear is 'Waaaaaaaaah'!

[@annakisfaludinebaan]

What kind of movie are you guys watching? Why are you lying?

[@Oomph6006]

Reagan, Thatcher and Pinochet...

[@tentwentyza]

Has this guy heard of elon musk, tommy robinson, erol musk and farage ?

[@chrimbus71]

I've never heard of erol musk??

[@adz951]

​@@chrimbus71Elon Musk's dad. Owned an emerald mine in South Africa. It's how Elon got his start.

[@chrimbus71]

@adz951 right, must be an interesting guy, pretty smart too I'd say. How did you get your start? Did 1000000x your money?

[@thenorthman9599]

He’s here to save us with this interview…. Oh and just very quickly promote his book

[@chrimbus71]

His toilet paper

[@adz951]

That was mentioned for about all of 3 seconds... during a 14 minute interview

[@promeuscharles3464]

He is correct on so many levels

[@michealnagy5763]

Not at all! Welcome are Americans not Hungarians. We do not share all the same values and our constitution and laws are different. Being of Hungarian decent. Americans and Hungarians are not the same.

[@chrimbus71]

Oh shoosh an expect with with no knowledge of Hungary knows more than you

[@michealnagy5763]

@ darn! Guess being from Hungary originally isn’t helpful.

[@JunkerOnDrums]

Both fascists in mind!

[@chrimbus71]

@@JunkerOnDrums have another drink Junker

[@michealnagy5763]

@ do you even know what a Fascist is?

[@espaniolito7]

I hear lots of radical changes that Trump could do in a authoritarian direction. But he’ll stay for 4 years. How mutch can he do that will persist in time?

[@toddfulton2280]

Putin and Xi had term limits as well. Trump has already "joked" about getting rid of them in America.

[@judithdavidson2356]

Too much

[@kieranlane9625]

An American who does not understand what’s going on in Britain

[@michealnagy5763]

I am an American. We have enough problems of our own. No need to get involved with the British or Hungarians.

[@leet3207]

The anti Trumps frothing over someones opinion not based in any fact other than Trump and Orban are not the from the neoliberal woke brigade. 😂🤦‍♀

[@JunkerOnDrums]

Yep comrade - tRump and oRbán are from the fascist brigade!!!! History shows fascists are losers 😂😂😂😂

[@oojezoo]

err... Trump's the epitome of neoliberalism

[@misterae6430]

What is woke?

[@misterae6430]

You know everything lies on a spectrum

[@mrbrumby3409]

Finally. A commentator who understands what is going on. He’s only missing one thing, and that it’s a triad. The Americas, Europe and Asia. I’ll let you work out who gets what.

[@gatvestreet9248]

@@mrbrumby3409 he’s clueless. Every aspect of what he says Trump will do with freedom, empowering enemies, censoring speech, controlling media, BIDEN just did all of it an more. He’s a clown TDS activist pretending to be a journalist

[@leonardcummins4492]

AAAAAAND the hatchet jobs begin....

[@LovingAllll]

Well then stop using the word "DEMOCRCAY" USA is an Electoral autocracy

[@grantjohnston7148]

American power is the same as the Navy power they have. The largest and most powerful. But just the EU portion of NATO Navy dwarfs the US Navy. Then there is the rest of NATO, western alliance and Pacific and free world alliance nations. Ultimately, the US military is very powerful. But comprehend to the combined forces of NATO alliance, western alliance and Pacific and free world alliance nations they are dwarfed!

[@gatvestreet9248]

Amazing how much this guest says things that mirror what Biden has done for 4 years.

[@christinalloyd9566]

f.a.f.o.

[@theteslatsunami3896]

What a load of codswallop. Severe TDS

[@keithlillis7962]

It is the truth - but you can't handle the truth.

[@trumpsbumboi]

Trumpovich is gay 🌈🌈 sparkly ✨✨ fairy 🧚

[@reckoner-nash]

You don't want to face the truth.

[@ryanmcpartland4613]

NO MORE DEI WOKE LIBERAL LUNACY!

[@marisabenson1222]

Whatever gives you comfort. Real courage is facing reality .

[@marisabenson1222]

I agree Britain undo Brexit.

[@Oomph6006]

Now...

[@juicedgoose]

Currently the EU has no reason to trust us. Just when we've cost all the time and hassle breaking away from them, we want to go back in. It's still looking like we are only interested in ourselves rather than being a genuine believer in the union. There's a lot of work to do to prove we're serious and worthy of rejoining.

[@mortenthorsen8994]

Hope he succeed. Hungary is a descent place to live

[@user-ne4ez6jg3p]

People like him keeps people from watching your channel

[@evieshore3270]

And yet here you are

[@adz951]

Interviews like this are the reason I watch Times Radio. I guess you're just here to troll?

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

What a clown. Has he not studied history at all. Maybe he should start with the Cuban missile crisis to see how transactional politics have always been the reality.

[@lg_believe333]

It’s quite insulting when Friedman suggests Brexit is nonsense and we in Britain will rejoin the EU. He’s American and I’m sure values his own countries sovereignty, which is why he should respect British sovereignty. #canzuk

[@chrisb6753]

MAGA 2028, MAGA 2036

[@chimwemwetembo6446]

If he believe that America has taken a path that he disapproves, why not run a campaign for us president and if he can win.

[@stephensuddick1896]

The future is unwritten.

[@davidgaskin5417]

Ok, very funny. Times have decided to do an early April fools joke. This guy is a conspiracy nutcase.

[@JohnAranita]

Oh, no! Deregulation!

[@Mr.barba97]

Thanks Alan. Love from Italy

[@archi-dr5te]

We will 'rejoin the EU' over my cold, dead body.

[@oojezoo]

get on with then

[@archi-dr5te]

@@oojezoo Arghhhhh! eh...

[@judithdavidson2356]

Most of us would be happy to rejoin.

[@archi-dr5te]

@@judithdavidson2356 Most chose to leave.

[@cloudycolacorp]

lizz truss' strongest soldier

[@lucaskim8791]

The world is moving from unipolarity to multipolarity

[@fredrikh9299]

Too much Russian propaganda? Enjoying freedom of speech here on western media Ivan?

[@sarahjessicafarter7383]

​@@fredrikh9299 Ivan is a common name in Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria and elsewhere. Thinking all slavs are the same is what a certain German in the 1940s thought.

[@sarahjessicafarter7383]

​@@fredrikh9299Ivan is a common name in Ukraine. Be less ignorant, Fredrik.

[@trumpsbumboi]

china is in decline 😢 Sad

[@timothykrause2327]

⁠@@fredrikh9299The “freedom of speech” was just given back to you by MAGA. Don’t mess it up.

[@robertcreighton4635]

I'm excited to see what trump will do. It should be hilarious 🍿😂 🍿 😂🍿 😂

[@Mr.barba97]

Bot

[@JanMorsø]

@@Mr.barba97 he's less than that

[@Mr.barba97]

@ even responding to them is too much I know

[@Gaia1980-xv1mt]

The British propagandist going crazy over trump 😅😅😅 cry harder about it 😅😅😅

[@jeremymanson1781]

My guess is everyone (who isn't yet) will be disappointed with Trump within two years from now.

[@jeremymanson1781]

Alan Friedman is an American.

[@trumpsbumboi]

Trump is gay 🌈🌈 sparkly ✨✨ fairy 🧚

[@chrimbus71]

​@jeremymanson1781 two years, it took 2 mins for sleepy Joe to open his mouth and lose support