“The internet looks like a murky world,” PM Orbán said, criticizing the anonymous and often frivolous culture of online discourse. “There’s sneakiness, trolling, fakery—it looks like a world of deceit.” But rather than retreating, the prime minister insisted that the right must assert itself online, bringing its own values into the digital sphere: “We call this digital conquest. We want the characteristics typical of the right—standing tall, straightforwardness, honesty, putting our names and faces to our opinions—to prevail in the digital space.”
He acknowledged the difficulty in doing so, especially in an environment where setting often dominates over substance. “Politics has been pushed into the entertainment industry,” he said. “And the entertainment industry has pushed people onto the political stage who are half-cracked… It’s no coincidence that the opposition is full of these kinds of people.”
PM Orbán took aim at recent opposition figures, saying that they turn serious matters into political theatre. He rejected comparisons that portray his government as reactionary or slow to respond. Referring to a recent scandal involving fabricated allegations of child abuse, he emphasized the seriousness of the attack: “This wasn’t just slander. This was blood libel.”
He defended Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén’s decision to pursue legal action: “You can’t let a blood libel pass in silence,” PM Orbán said. “I instructed the Justice Minister to start an investigation. It’s turned out that this was a well-constructed attempt to topple the government, possibly with foreign intelligence links.”
Asked whether the government had initially underestimated the threat, he admitted the concern. “Maybe we underestimated how powerful this network and social media can be,” he said. “But Zsolt didn’t, and we’ve now acted. There will be serious legal consequences—there will be no mercy.”
In response to criticism that the police acted too swiftly in this case, PM Orbán called those accusations “sly” and dismissed opposition figures like Ákos Hadházy as unserious: “He’s a halfwit,” PM Orbán said. “He tapes a phone to his chest and walks around like that. He’s not a political actor.”
Returning to his broader political message, PM Orbán expressed frustration with the slow legal system and promised clearer regulations to empower law enforcement. “I sometimes feel that the police are doing more legal theorizing than acting,” he said. “We have to make the laws clearer so they can take action.”
The escalating diplomatic rift with Ukraine also featured in the prime minister’s reflections. Following President Volodymyr Zelensky’s public claim that "Hungarian-origin drones" violated Ukrainian airspace, PM Orbán firmly backed the Ministry of Defence’s denial. “It is not true that Hungarian military drones were involved,” the ministry stated, and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó added that Zelensky is “starting to hallucinate from his anti-Hungarian obsession.” The incident has further strained an already fragile bilateral relationship, which PM Orbán said would likely continue facing similar provocations in the months ahead.
The prime minister also mentioned his latest conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump, for whom he recently noted that “Hungary can’t just switch off Russian oil—it’s landlocked.” PM Orbán recalled that the call came late at night, during dinner. “I calmly finished my lecsó, and went to bed at peace, because I had defended Hungary’s national interest,” he recounted. He stressed that these types of high-pressure situations are likely to multiply.
As the 2026 elections approach, the prime minister made it clear that maintaining seriousness in politics is non-negotiable: “Politics is a dangerous business, and what happens in it has serious consequences. We may be more boring than our opponents, but we must stay serious while entering the digital world.”