Trump lauds Hungarian PM, vows swift end to Ukraine conflict

"Russia was afraid of him. China was afraid of him. The whole world was at peace. There's only one way you can solve it. You've got to bring President Trump back," said Republican candidate Donald Trump during the Republican Party election convention in Milwaukee, quoting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Trump praised him as a "tough leader".

Donald Trump also praised the Hungarian Prime Minister as a tough leader whom the press doesn't like because he is "tough."

"Viktor Orbán said it: There’s only one way you can solve it. You’ve got to bring President Trump back. Russia was afraid of him. China was afraid of him. The whole world was at peace," said Trump.

He added that while Russia invaded Georgia during George Bush's presidency, Crimea during Barack Obama's presidency, and the rest of Ukraine during Biden's presidency, "Russia took nothing" when he was president.

CNN reported on Thursday, citing insider sources, that Trump will have a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. This will be the first conversation between the two politicians since Trump left the White House.

According to one of the sources cited by CNN, the timing of the call - which has been planned for some time - may still change.

Trump repeatedly assured during the election campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine within a day, even before formally taking office. During a debate with Joe Biden, he called the Ukrainian president "one of the greatest salesman in history," complaining about the costs of supporting Ukraine.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Zelensky stated that Trump should reveal his plan so that his country could be ready for whether America would abandon it. However, later, he stated that he does not fear Trump's presidency.

On Thursday, Rick Grenell, considered a potential Secretary of State in a possible Donald Trump cabinet, said that the basis for ending the war could be using ideas for creating autonomous regions in Ukraine, which were already included in the Minsk agreements in 2014 and 2015. Grenell, however, noted that he had not discussed this idea with the former president.

"Our planet is teetering on the edge of World War Three, and this will be a war like no other," said Republican candidate Donald Trump during the Republican Party election convention in Milwaukee. He promised to end all wars, including the war in Ukraine.

Here is an international crisis the likes of which the world has seldom seen. War is now raging in Europe and the Middle East, a growing specter of conflict hangs over Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and all of Asia, and our planet is teetering on the edge of World War Three, and this will be a war like no other, said Trump.

I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine and the war caused by the attack on Israel," he promised.