US President Donald Trump told ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl that he was not worried about Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary and that he liked the incoming Prime Minister, Peter Magyar, Reuters quoted him as saying.
"I think the new guy is going to do well - he's a good guy," Trump told the reporter.
Trump said he didn't know if it would have made a difference if he had gone to Hungary instead of Vice President J.D. Vance to campaign for Orban.
"He was way behind," Trump said. "I wasn't that involved in it. But Viktor is a good guy."
Trump had supported Orban before the vote, even making a brief speech last week at a campaign rally in Hungary, where Vance called his boss after he took the stage.
But Orban lost power after 16 years as Hungarians voted in record numbers for a pro-European course led by his center-right rival, Peter Magyar.