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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban quipped throughout a bilateral assembly on the White Home that he needs to rent press secretary Karoline Leavitt after she delivered an impromptu takedown of the media for spreading “pretend information” over American affordability considerations.
“Karoline, the prime minister would love you to work for him in Hungary,” Trump stated Friday after Orban was seen leaning towards Trump and asking him, “Can I get her for us?”
The scene unfolded after Trump referred to as Leavitt into Cupboard room on the White Home, the place Trump and Orban had been holding a bilateral assembly to debate Hungarian power and commerce. Towards the top of the assembly, reporters peppered the president with questions on the shutdown and affordability considerations, with one reporter saying, “You stated final night time you did not wish to speak about affordability.”
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White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped the media over its reporting on affordability underneath the Trump administration throughout a bilateral assembly between President Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. (Saul Loeb//AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Trump shot again: “I talked about it. When did I not wish to speak about it? I speak about it on a regular basis. We’re a lot better than Biden and all of them now.”
Trump referred to as out to Leavitt amid his response, together with her arriving on the assembly shortly after.
“They stated, ‘Oh, I do not wish to speak about affordability.’ The rationale I do not wish to speak about affordability is as a result of all people is aware of that it is cheaper underneath Trump than it was underneath Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump stated. “And the costs are manner down.”
Leavitt arrived to the assembly and promptly launched a takedown on the media for his or her protection of the economic system.
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“It’s extremely unlucky that the reporters on this room refused to deal with, sir, what you simply stated, which is that you simply inherited the worst inflation disaster in trendy American historical past, and you’re fixing it in 10 quick months,” Leavitt stated. “And your complete administration has been tasked with this effort, from Treasury Division to Agriculture Division to the Nationwide Financial Council proper right here on the White Home, they’re slashing regulation. He signed the most important center class tax reduce in six months. In six months, in report time. Placing extra money again into the American folks’s pockets.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits President Donald Trump on the White Home Nov. 7, 2025, for a bilateral assembly targeted on oil and commerce. (Saul Loeb/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
“Affordability is what the American folks elected this president to do,” she added. “And he’s doing it. And also you guys refuse to cowl it. And also you refused to cowl that the earlier administration created the worst unaffordability disaster in American historical past. And I have been watching the TV all day saying that he does not wish to speak about affordability. That is what he is engaged on each day. And that is what this administration is doing now.”
Trump stated the media has “refused” to cowl the financial wins as a result of the reporters are “pretend information,” earlier than Orban interjected that he wish to rent Leavitt.
“You realize what, that is an excellent resolution you simply made,” Trump jokingly informed Orban after he stated he needed to rent Leavitt. “Please do not go away us, Karoline.”
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White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes a query from a reporter throughout the each day press briefing within the Brady Press Briefing Room on the White Home on Nov. 4, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
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Orban’s assembly on the White Home comes as he calls on the U.S. to grant Hungary an exemption on U.S. sanctions positioned on Russia in October as negotiations with Moscow to finish the warfare in Ukraine slowed.
