Biden-Orbán feud heats up as Hungary summons envoy over ‘dictatorship’ diss

Hungary has hauled in the American ambassador for a dressing down after U.S. President Joe Biden’s remarks about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wanting to run a “dictatorship.”

During a presidential campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Friday, Biden said that Orbán “doesn’t think democracy works and is looking for dictatorship,” after the Hungarian leader’s love-in with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in Florida last week.

Hungary reacted furiously on Tuesday, with Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó blasting that Budapest “is not obliged to tolerate lies, even from the president of the United States.”