CPAC arrives in Europe as the alliance between Trump’s White House and international rights grows

Maga influencers and far-right leaders gathered in Poland and Hungary this week to hold two international events as a conservative political action conference called the CPAC, the strength of the growing transatlantic alliance between Trump’s White House and Europe. Populist conservatives move.

Thursday in Budapest, Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán He was the keynote speaker at the CPAC event in the country and attributed to the first 100 days after Trump returned to the Oval Office. “The Trump tsunami swept across the world,” Orban said. “It brings hope to the world. We no longer suffocate in the awakened sea.”

Prior to the Hungarian leader’s speech, President Trump’s video message played Mr. Trump’s appreciation for the incident and Alban himself to those attending the meeting.

“You know how I feel about Hungary and know how I feel about CPAC. I respect and love both of them. I also want to consider special considerations for Hungary leader Viktor Orbán. He is a great man and a very special person,” President Trump said in the video, later announced to social media by CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp.

According to Human Rights Watch, Orban used his party’s huge contribution to the Hungarian parliament to undermine the independence of the judiciary, attacked independent media, demonized immigration and discriminated against the LGBTQ people, and was one of many notable right-wing leaders in attendance.

Those leaders in Budapest activities include German leaders The far-right AFD party Alice Weidel Liz Trussand American social media influencers Ben Shapiro and Jack Posobiec.

At an event in Jasionka, Poland on Tuesday, prominent speakers included U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who delivered a keynote speech at the event.

“I do think we’re working well with each other,” former White House political director Schlapp told CBS News on Friday. “I think what we’re doing is, on old-fashioned days, you’d call it friendship building and diplomacy and build relationships to thrive in the prosperity of our country.”

Poland participated in the CPAC for the first time earlier this week. Budapest is the venue for events held for the fourth consecutive year – Emphasizing Growing relationships between Margo Republican and the state of the Fidesz ruled by Orban. In recent years, many American conservatives have regarded Hungary and Alban as ideal scripts for American governance.

“I think their policies at the border and immigration have changed the whole talk in Europe,” Schrapp said. “It’s definitely between Alban and Trump, which normalizes the idea, and you’re not only hiring non-specific illegal immigrants, because some global agencies tell you that you have to.”

More and more rightists

The meeting is taking place amid tensions between President Trump and traditional European allies.

Mr. Trump recently announced his plan 50% tariffs in the EU The goods will be postponed to July, and since Mr. Trump resumed his post in January, the trading neighborhood and its European allies have established unstable relations with the White House.

Members of the Trump administration sometimes break diplomatic norms by publicly weighing the elections and policies of U.S. allies.

Vice President JD Vance At the Munich Security Conference in February, he was criticized by European leaders and accused the U.S. allies of the right-wing thinking within their own countries. The Vice President cited the British law that sets protests as moderate protests about online content within a certain distance of abortion clinics and in EU law.

The trend continues in the Polish CPAC event on Tuesday, with DHS Secretary Nome calling on the Poles to vote for right-wing presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki, currently the mayor of Warsaw in the country’s upcoming runoff election against free rival Rafałtrzaskowski.

“For years, I’ve been watching the socialists, like the mayor of this absolutely leader train, who destroyed our country,” Nome said.

This week’s event is also a few days after the blog post written by Samuel Samson, senior adviser to the State Department’s Office of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, on the State Department’s website, which suggests that the United States prioritizes the U.S. issues in traditional European alliances.

“The suppression of speech, promoting mass migration, targeting religious expression and undermining electoral choices threatens the basis of the Transatlantic Partnership,” the Post wrote.

The promotional description of the CPAC Budapest website emphasizes the depth of the relationship between populism in Europe and President Trump.

The description of the event reads: “With Donald Trump’s victory and the rise of European rights, the age of patriots of Western civilization has begun – the Hungarian CPAC Hungary will be the hub of this movement in 2025.”

Chairman Matt Schlapp told CBS News that he believes the conference will only continue to expand globally.

“We will go to Australia later this year. We will go to Japan later this year and we will go to Brazil later this year. We are going to Mexico to Mexico. We are talking about having a CPAC in Colombia. We have already done a CPAC in El Salvador and a CPAC in El Salvador. We have already done a CPAC in other European countries,” he said. ”