This week, Tucker Carlson broadcasts his program Tonight on the American Fox News channel from Budapest, and his programs are watched by more than five million viewers every evening. On yesterday's broadcast of Tonight, he conducted an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which was reported by Dániel Kacsoh on the mandiner.hu portal.
In the conversation, conducted in English without an interpreter, the host raised the question: why was our country the only European country to stand up against migration in 2015, when hundreds of thousands appeared at the southern border? The other member states welcomed the arrivals, Hungary said no, Carlson recalled.
"It was the only reasonable course of action. If someone crosses your border without any permission from the Hungarian state, you have to defend your country and say stop," said the Prime Minister.
"It comes from God, from nature, and so all arguments are on our side. Because this is our country. This is our population, our history, our language. And so we must act. Of course, if someone is in trouble and there is no one closer than the Hungarians, then you have to help. But no one can simply say "okay, this is a nice country, we want to come here and live here because life is better here". It is not a human right for someone to come here.
According to Viktor Orbán, many European countries have decided to open a new chapter in their own history, this is called a post-Christian, post-national society. But mixing a large Muslim community with the indigenous people is risky, and there is clearly a high chance that nothing good will come of it. Every nation has the right to accept or reject this risk. The Hungarians decided not to take this risk - reminded the Prime Minister, who said that this is why they attacked Hungary so harshly.
The Prime Minister said of Soros that he "embodies everything that is not good for this country". According to him, Soros is the kind of person who does not respect the traditions of this country, he has a philosophical ideology called "Conviction" and wants to force us to follow the path he has set out for us to change our lives. As for migration.
US President Joe Biden was also mentioned in the interview . Carlson recalled that thirty years ago, Orbán appeared as a hero in the eyes of many in the United States, because he was one of the leaders of those fighting against the Soviet occupation. However, the other day, Biden called the prime minister a totalitarian thug. "They see what is happening in Belarus, Poland and Hungary. Totalitarian regimes are on the rise in the world," Biden said before the presidential election last November. "Our current president supports all the thugs in the world," he added.
Orbán now reacted to this as follows:
"Someone who does not speak our language and has very limited knowledge of Hungary, even of our past few decades, obviously cannot understand the situation of the Hungarians, but this extreme opinion is not justified either. You know, this statement in itself is a personal insult to all Hungarians," said the Prime Minister, who said that good American-Hungarian relations are our value.
He also touched on the fact that left-wing politicians like Biden cannot imagine a nationalist or conservative alternative ideology.
Western liberals cannot accept that there is a conservative national alternative within Western civilization that is more successful on a daily basis. That's why they criticize us.
the full summary of the interview here .
