The fourth CPAC Budapest opened today with speeches by director Matt Schlapp, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze. US speakers include Rep. Abe Hamedeh, New York Young Republicans head Gavin Wax, Trump attorney John Eastman and YouTubers Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Dave Rubin, and Jack Posobiec.
International stars set to speak in the next two days include Dutch Freedom Party Leader Geert Wilders, German AfD party head Alice Weidel, former British PM Liz Truss, former Australian PM Tony Abbott, Slovak PM Robert Fico, the head of the Spanish Vox party Santiago Abascal, the head of the Austrian Freedom party Herbert Kickl, and Dutch influencer Eva Vlaardingeerbroek.
The event began with a prayer and the singing of the Hungarian and US national anthems.
In his opening speech, organizer Miklos Szantho praised President Donald Trump for “having Hungary’s back” and criticized the “globalists in Brussels” who want to cut Hungary’s funding. “We think the EU should stand for peace, and not for letting countries in that will cause war.” Szantho announced the dawn of an “Age of Patriots”, the motto of this year’s CPAC Budapest.
CPAC and Donald Trump had normalized an idea started by Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, host Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union said: “That a country needs secure borders. Before Trump, we were told that was racist.”
After “four years of Joe Biden, two wars and a broken economy”, Schlapp had asked Trump why he wanted to run for President again. Trump was convinced “we won’t have a country” if he didn’t run again, Schlapp said.
After Trump’s victory, “there’s a new breeze blowing”, Schlapp told Orbán. “This time, that breeze is at our backs.” There is a new generation of conservative leaders now, including Argentine President Javier Milei and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Schlapp said, who are subject to constant attacks, “and our job is to have their backs.”
Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze said that “Georgia has faced enormous pressure to turn our country into a battlefield again” since the start of the Ukraine war. But “Georgia will always stand for peace,” Kobakhidze said. What Americans call the “Deep State,” Georgians call the “Global War Agenda”. “I hope that President Trump will successfully weaken the Deep State,” Kobakhidze said.
President Donald Trump sent a video message to CPAC Budapest.
“Last year, standing on this stage, I said that Donald Trump will win the US elections. Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said. “Next year we have elections in Hungary. Any questions?” he joked to audience applause.
Conservatives routinely have to weather attacks that would send liberals running to hide in tears, Orbán said. Orbán praised Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze for creating the strongest economic growth in Europe, “with 20% of his country under the boot of the Russian bear,” praising Kobakhidze for not letting his country get dragged into the Ukraine war.
Orbán also praised Slovak PM Robert Fico, for “taking 5 bullets, and still he’s here as if nothing happened.” Orbán lauded former Czech PM Andrej Babis for closing the borders of his country and hailed Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki: “What Brussels is doing with the PiS party is unprecedented.”
Orbán greeted German AfD head Alice Weidel, saying, “it is good to see there are Germans who love their country more than Brussels.” If there were justice, Herbert Kickl would be Prime Minister of Austria now, Orbán told the Austrian Freedom Party leader whose party came in first in national elections in ‘October 2024 but was excluded from the ruling coalition. Orbán called Dutch Freedom Party head Geert Wilders “a Dutch hero who has to be protected by body guards and whose life is threatened. We are happy to have you here with us.”
“Donald Trump has won and is restoring hope to the world,” Orbán said, calling it “the best comeback in the history of the Western world. What a slap in the face for leftists: Not only did he win, but he is doing what he promised.” Trump has closed the borders, abolished the transgender agenda and left the Soros organization “naked”, Orbán said. “The Emperor is now naked. It is like a dream come true.”
The American dream had come true, Orbán said, “but what about the European dream?” The EU used to be an organization of sovereign nations, Orbán said. “European people do not feel safe in their streets anymore. This is organized population exchange. The Green Deal is killing our economies. And now that we have a heavyweight leader to negotiate tariffs with in the US, it turns out we only have featherweight leaders.”
Conservative leaders like Marine LePen and Matteo Salvini are being dragged into court and tried, Orbán said, while the AfD is being pursued in Germany. Brussels is dragging Europe into war, and wants to centralized the EU and put the European economy on a war footing, Orbán said.
“This is the problem with Hungary: we are a free race. We don’t want central control and don’t want our money to be channeled into war. We want to give the people back freedom of thought and speech. We want a nation without fear. This is the Patriotic project. This war will have to be won at home and then in Brussels. We need to join forces for this united battle. Then we can start to re-occupy Brussels. For this we need the United States and the support of Donald Trump. The task is not complicated. We just need to win. And we will make Europe Great again.”
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