Three months after becoming president, Ronald Thump and his Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, and a select few of his advisors accompanied him to an important meeting in Moscow, Russia. There he would meet with Russian president Vasily Patrushev and Hungarian Prime Minister János Csupó. The meeting had been publicized as an effort to strengthen ties with like-minded countries, but everybody who did not support Thump knew why he went on the trip. Thump traveled to Moscow to be Patrushev's, as the comedian Stephen Colbert who was living in exile in Canada said, cockholster.
With Kabadaian to his right, Angelica to his left, and a posy of advisors right behind them, Thump passed through the doors opened by the two Kremlin Regiment guards standing across from each other. The two Kremlin Regiment guards, dressed in their dark green uniforms with tall dark boots and a black and gold Shako cap, held a SKS rifle in one hand and saluted the visiting president with the other. Thump slowed down to observe the two guards saluting him, but instead of saluting them back he gave them one of his signature looks; he shut his eyes and plumped up all of the loose skin in the lower part of his head around his mouth, creating the illusion of having fuller lips, and nodded at the guards.
The Thump delegation passed from the gold-plated hallways of the Kremlin to a room painted in an off-white color with white columns, gold curtains, and a wooden floor with various star patterns. In the center of the room stood a long table with nine chairs surrounding it. A man sat in the chair to the left of the main chair, that man was the Hungarian Prime Minister János Csupó. Thump took the seat across from his counterpart and proceeded to start up a conversation with him. He called up the Deputy Assistant to the President Edgar Szarka, a British man of Hungarian descent with connections to Neo-Nazi organizations in Hungary, to translate for him.
"Prime Minister Ka-supo, it's great to be here. You must have made a fortune selling that musical instrument you created. You're always finding cheap little plastic ones in cereal boxes, that's a great deal you've made with the cereal companies, fantastic," Thump said in his usual disorganized and uninformed matter, he even mispronounced the Prime Minister's name.
Csupó, a dark haired man in his early fifties, chuckled a bit before responding in a Hungarian accent, "Actually mister president, a few things, one, I do speak English. Second, I am not sure what instrument you are referring to; I have never invented such a product. And lastly, Csupó is pronounced Choo-poh."
"That's what I said," Thump replied, denying the fact that he had mispronounced Csupó's name even though he had just mispronounced it less than a minute.
Csupó just stared down Thump, he had finally witnessed Thump deny something that he had clearly said. He knew from watching interviews from the campaign and the rare interviews he gave with foreign news agencies that were critical of him that if you proved Thump wrong instead of admitting that he made a mistake he would simply blame someone else, say he said the truth from the beginning, or just deny the truth. Like Thump, he received help from Russia and aligned himself ideologically with Patrushev. He silenced opposition groups and the free press, returning Hungary to a state much more similar to the old Hungarian People's Republic than the ideals set out for the European Union. Csupó had even built a barrier on his nation's border with Serbia and Croatia to keep refugees out of Hungary, similar to what Thump was doing with the Thump Freedom Wall on the southern border. The two men did not speak for about two minutes after Thump denied mispronouncing Csupó's name, but that came to an end when the summit's guest of honor entered the room. Thump turned his head towards the doorway when Csupó informed him that the presidential candidate for France's Front National party had arrived.