The far-right Alternative for Germany has traded blows over the wisdom of building ties with Donald Trump after the defeat of Viktor Orbán, with some claiming that the US president’s support for the Hungarian leader had backfired.
AfD lawmaker Matthias Moosdorf, a US-sceptic with close ties to Russia, said that the “ostentatious friendship” with Trump and vice-president JD Vance had “hung like millstones around Orbán’s neck” ahead of Sunday’s election.
He said that Hungary, where the opposition claimed a landslide victory and ended 16 years of Orbán’s rule, should serve as a warning for others against the risk of “grabbing falling knives”. Moosdorf’s warning, posted on the social media platform X, was reposted by one of the party’s influential ideologues, Benedikt Kaiser.