‘Eating Ursula Von Der Leyen For Breakfast’: World Leader Who Supports Trump Says EU Got Manhandled By US President

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán tore into European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, saying President Donald Trump clearly outmatched her in negotiating the new U.S.-EU trade deal announced over the weekend.

Trump unveiled the deal Sunday, which imposes a 15% tariff on most EU imports and includes a pledge by Brussels to purchase $750 billion in American energy and invest another $600 billion into the U.S. economy. During a Monday morning podcast appearance, Orbán called Trump a “heavyweight negotiator” and von der Leyen a “featherweight,” adding it would be difficult for the European leader to spin the deal as a win for the EU.

“It wasn’t a deal that President Donald Trump made with Ursula von der Leyen. It was Donald Trump eating Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast,” Orbán, who leads Hungary’s conservative Fidesz party, said. “The position of the U.S. President is much more confident, and the position of the President of the Commission is always more fragile.”

Orbán also claimed that the new U.S.-EU agreement was worse than the trade deal the U.K. reached with the U.S. in May, which lowered tariffs on most British goods to 10%. Other right-wing European leaders, such as Marine Le Pen of France, have similarly criticized von der Leyen’s handling of the negotiations.

Von der Leyen’s office declined to comment on Orbán’s remarks.