The other option in front of those who wanted a break with the governing Libre party was Asfura, the candidate favoured by Trump.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday that the US would be “very supportive” if centre-right candidate Asfura won the presidential election.
“If he doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is,” Trump added.
But the US president’s last-minute intervention angered many as they went to the polls.
Casting his ballot at a school in Tegucigalpa, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Octavio Pineda told the BBC that President Trump’s social media posts amounted to meddling.
“It’s totally electoral interference by the US president and we have publicly denounced it as such. We heard his words, but we don’t share his views.”
In one social media post, Mr Trump also controversially promised to pardon the disgraced former Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who is currently serving 45 years in a US prison for smuggling drugs and weapons.
“Remember, it wasn’t even the Honduran justice system which tried and sentenced our ex-president for drug trafficking. It was the US Attorney General’s office itself,” recalls Minister Pineda.
Meanwhile, Asfura has carefully tried to distance himself from Hernández.
On Friday he told news agency AFP that he has “no ties” with the ex-president, and that “the party is not responsible for his personal actions”.