The newly-elected Prime Minister of Hungary, Peter Magyar, who defeated Viktor Orbán this week despite strong support for the incumbent from U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, began announcing major changes to Hungary’s old guard immediately.
Posting a photo of himself with the current President of Hungary, Tamás Sulyok, Magyar simultaneously slammed Sulyok on social media as being “unfit to serve.”
With the photo below, Magyar wrote: “I have arrived at the Sándor Palace to meet the President of Hungary. @DrTamasSulyok is unworthy of representing the unity of the Hungarian nation. He is unfit to serve as the guardian of legality. He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model. Following the formation of the new government, Tamás Sulyok must leave office immediately.”
I have arrived at the Sándor Palace to meet the President of Hungary.@DrTamasSulyok is unworthy of representing the unity of the Hungarian nation. He is unfit to serve as the guardian of legality. He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model.
Following the… pic.twitter.com/aBChLJrv7K
— Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) (@magyarpeterMP) April 15, 2026
Trump critic and former U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) replied to Magyar: “I love this.”
Another fan of Magyar’s wrote: “Taking this pic while trash talking him is hilarious.”
Yet in a post that emphasizes how challenging real change could be after 16 years of an entrenched Orbán regime, Austrian economist and influencer Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, who serves as Secretary General of the Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) of the European People’s Party (EPP), replied to Magyar: “I nominate @KatalinNovak_HU for President of Hungary. Please @magyarpeterMP this way you destroy Orban’s legacy.”
[NOTE: Katalin Novák, who served as President of Hungary in the Orbán government, resigned from her position in 2024 due to a scandal involving a pardon. She was replaced by Sulyok.]