From time to time you have to wait for the leader of the Great Power – said President Andrzej Duda in an interview with the correspondent of “Facts” by TVN Marcin Wrona. He commented on the meeting with Donald Trump near Washington, to which the American leader was late. Referring to the situation when he was waiting for the president of the US, he said that he had “such a way of work, that he was circling a lot of his office.”
At 9 o'clock on TVN24 a whole conversation with the president will be broadcast
President Andrzej Duda met on February 22 with the US President Donald Trump at the National Harbor (Maryland Stan) near Washington during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference. Their meeting was delayed, and the conversation – according to reports – lasted about 10 minutes, although it was planned for an hour.
Before the presidents had a chance to talk, Duda waited for several dozen minutes in one of the rooms for the American leader who was late. The party station Telewizja Republika showed for about an hour and a half in a separate frame on its air, like The Polish president and his delegation are waiting for Trump – They walk around the room, stand, discuss with each other.
President Andrzej Duda, who is in New York, was asked by the correspondent of TVN24 “Facts” in the USA Marcin Wrona, or did not feel offended by the fact that Trump ordered to wait for so long, the meeting was shorter than planned, and one of the television stations showed how he circled the room.
Andrzej Duda and Donald TrumpMarek Borawski/KPRP
Duda: I have such a way of working that I circulate a lot around the office
– I have to disappoint everyone that I generally have such a way of working, that I circulate a lot on my office. Those who go with me know that I generally work so much that I just walk a lot and walk working – said the president.
He mentioned that “in 2016, all NATO leaders waited with him in the Presidential Palace for President Barack Obama, because President Barack Obama was late for NATO's work dinner during the NATO summit in Warsaw.”
– I was quite a new president in this environment at the time and I was very nervous that we were all waiting almost half an hour, and President Barack Obama is not there, and the information I received was that the president is in his apartment and talks on the phone – he added.
– seeing my nervousness and embarrassment, Mrs. Chancellor clearly Angela Merkel She came up to me, smiled and said: “Mr. President, the Lord is relatively new among us, calmly, nothing is happening, we have a very nice evening, we will wait, this is the president of the United States, the president will come soon, then we will go upstairs and start our meeting, we will start work,” said Duda.
He stated that “it is simply that from time to time you have to wait for the leader of the Great Power.” – It is simply so and everyone in international policy approach it, as you can see calmly, even those who still have a greater potential than my Poland country – he said.
He noticed that he was “one of the four leaders of the state who recently met with President Donald Trump.”
– my meeting was the first, because it was only the president after me France And only after me was the Prime Minister of Great Britain and only after me was the president Wołodymyr Zelanski he added.
Source of the main photo: The White House/X