"Trump's Meeting with Hungary's Autocratic Leader Sparks Controversy"

The 2024 presidential campaign began with a stark contrast as Joe Biden fiercely defended democracy in his State of the Union address, while Donald Trump openly embraced Hungary's authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán, in a pro-Putin, anti-democracy summit. Biden's speech evoked the peril faced by the U.S. in 1941 and condemned the GOP for blocking aid to Ukraine, while Trump's embrace of Orbán and the GOP's alignment with Putin highlighted the existential threats facing the nation.