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Orbán as UN Secretary-General?

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Published in Der Standard
(Austria) on 28 October 2026
by Hans Rauscher (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Peter Carioca. Edited by Michelle Bisson.
Donald Trump supports his kindred spirit.

In the Anglo-American world there is a saying: "That is the most absurd appointment since Caligula made his horse a consul."

This fits with The Wall Street Journal's report that Donald Trump wants to appoint the former Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán as U.N. secretary-general. Trump's proposal reportedly already has the support of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. This would be right up the alley of the wannabe autocrat and the two genuinely authoritarian rulers of Russia and China. Orbán has always been reliable when it comes to democratic destruction, anti-liberalism and corruption.

The other veto-wielding powers in the Security Council, the United Kingdom and France, will likely not agree with it. But a trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin and Xi is supposed to take place soon, and Orbán's nomination could be thought of as an amuse-bouche before the main course, which is a new division of the world.

His two "partners" certainly won't genuinely commit to such an arrangement, since they can manipulate Trump without giving him any real power. This has already been demonstrated. Incidentally, the story about Caligula’s horse was created by a malicious Roman historian, but otherwise there are actually many parallels between Caligula and Trump.


Orbán als UN-Generalsekretär?

Donald Trump unterstützt seinen Bruder im Geiste

Es gibt im anglo-amerikanischen Raum die Redewendung: „Das ist die bizarrste Personalentscheidung seit der römische Kaiser Caligula sein Rennpferd Incitatus zum Konsul ernannt hat.”

Das passt sehr genau auf die Meldung des Wall Street Journal, dass Donald Trump den ehemaligen ungarischen Autokraten Viktor Orbán zum UN-Generalsekretär machen will. Angeblich stößt er damit auf Zustimmung bei Wladimir Putin und Xi Jinping. Das wäre eine Besetzung nach dem Geschmack des Möchtegern-Autokraten Trump und der beiden tatsächlich autoritären Herrscher von Russland und China. Orbán war in Sachen Demokratiezerstörung, Antiliberalismus und Korruption immer verlässlich.

Die anderen Veto-Mächte im Sicherheitsrat, Großbritannien und Frankreich, werden dem wohl nicht zustimmen. Aber es soll ja demnächst zu einem Dreiertreffen Trump/Putin/Xi kommen und die Personalie Orbán könnte man schon als amuse gueule vor dem Hauptgang betrachten, nämlich einer neuen Aufteilung der Welt.

Seine beiden "Partner" lassen sich mit Sicherheit nicht wirklich darauf ein, aber nur, weil sie ja Trump manipulieren können, ohne ihm wirkliche Macht zu überlassen. Das hat sich ja bisher schon gezeigt. Übrigens: die Geschichte mit Caligulas Pferd ist von einem boshaften römischen Geschichtsschreiber erfunden worden, aber sonst gibt es ziemlich viele Parallelen Caligula/Trump.
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