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The Trump administration has reportedly advocated for far right authoritarian Viktor Orbán, ex-prime minister of Hungary, to serve in the top role at the United Nations amid the administration’s mission to weaken the organization and its role in advancing human rights across the globe.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, sources from three countries have said that the U.S. is backing Orbán for UN secretary-general when the new term starts on January 1, 2027, and originally pitched him on the idea, which could be announced after the U.S. midterm elections.

The plan is far-fetched. The far right icon spent his 16 years as prime minister plunging Hungary into fascist authoritarianism, eroding human rights and maintaining power and control through corruption, police violence, surveillance, and censorship. The U.S. State Department has previously recognized “significant human rights issues” in Hungary under Orbán, before his surprise ousting by Péter Magyar earlier this year. Many scholars and commentators warned that Orbán’s rule demonstrated the signs of fascism.

As head of the UN, Orbán would likely seek to advance the far right’s agenda on the world stage, and could “act as an apologist for Vladimir Putin and other dictators,” WSJ’s........

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