PM Viktor Orbán: “I was in the kitchen when Trump called me”

David Cornstein, former US Ambassador to Hungary, was handing in his resignation letter to Trump when the President suddenly said, “Let’s call Viktor” – and they did.

The other day, when David Cornstein, former United States Ambassador to Hungary, gave an interview to Népszava, he mentioned that a few weeks back, when he was handing in his resignation letter to Trump,

the President said, out of the blue: “Let’s call Viktor!”

And if it was not unexpected enough, Cornstein added that the call had reached Orbán right in his home, while he was in the kitchen – so, shortly after the interview, Blikk too decided to get in touch with the Hungarian prime minister to learn about the details of this extraordinary situation.

“I was puttering around,” said the prime minister to Blikk, “warming up some food”. Then he adds proudly that the food in question was lecsó based on his wife’s recipe (named ‘European champion’), which is also published in her recipe book A konyhaablakból (From the Kitchen Window).