President Trump is scheduled to meet with the Polish president in June, hosting another central European nationalist less than a month after sitting down with Hungary's authoritarian prime minister
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Orbán, who this week became the first Hungarian prime minister to meet with a U.S. president since 2005, has been denounced for limiting press freedom, undermining judicial independence, targeting independent nongovernmental groups, and encouraging racist and anti-Semitic conspiracies. Orbán is “probably like me," Trump said during their joint appearance at the White House with the visiting Hungarian prime minister. "A little bit controversial, but that’s OK ... you’ve done a good job, and you’ve kept your country safe," he said, while declaring that Orbán — one of the EU's most controversial leaders — "has done a tremendous job" and is “respected all over Europe.
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