Budapest, Hungary —
When Vice President JD Vance held his phone to the mic, it seemed for a moment as though his boss might not pick up. But at the second attempt, and after a few rings, he got through to Donald Trump. In the president’s defense, he had plenty on his mind, having threatened hours earlier to destroy “a whole civilization” in Iran.
That crisis felt a world away from the MTK Sportpark in Budapest, where a few thousand Hungarians had gathered to celebrate “The Day of Hungarian-American Friendship.”
Billed as the celebration of friendship between the two nations, the day was really about friendship between Trump and Victor Orbán, Hungary’s populist prime minister…