Donald Trump met Viktor Orbán in Florida on Thursday night, just weeks after the Hungarian prime minister met Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
His visit to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach is the latest in a number of meetings between the two men.
Mr Orbán has publicly endorsed Trump’s re-election bid and recently said there was a “very, very high chance” that President Joe Biden would lose the election.
In a tweet, Mr Orbán called the visit “peace mission 5.0”, adding:
“We discussed ways to make #peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!”
The Hungarian leader has been frequently criticised in Europe for his pro-Russian views but remains popular among Trump supporters and US conservatives.
He has also recently met China’s Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a self-described “peace” initiative.
On Wednesday, Russian newspaper Izvestia wrote such initiatives were futile, “but Viktor Orbán may pass information he has collected to Trump’s team”.
Mr Orbán told German media earlier this week that the former US president was a “self-made man” with a “different approach to everything”.
A Trump victory in the US election would be “good for the world politics”, he added.
“He [Trump] is a man of peace. Under his four-year term he did not initiate a single war, and he did a lot in order to create peace in old conflicts in very complicated areas of the world.”
Mr Orbán, whose country currently holds the presidency of the European Union, also criticised the Biden administration for failing to end the conflict in Ukraine.
