Reporter, publisher, adviser and friend of the former vice president, and recently also a co-host of the conservative Talk show and podcast. Who is Thomas Rose, appointed by Donald Trump as the United States ambassador in Poland?
President Donald Trump announced that Thomas Rose will become the US ambassador to Poland. “Thomas is an extremely respected businessman and commentator who for almost ten years successfully ran a radio program in Sirius XM and was the publisher and general director of 'The Jerusalem Post'” – said the American leader on his Social Social Social Social Platform. He added that Rose “would take care of the representation of our interests in Poland and will always put America in the first place.”
New US ambassador to Poland
Thomas Rose was born in 1962. He is a historian and journalist by profession: he did a bachelor's degree in history at the Brandeis University, and he received the master's degree at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalist, one of the oldest journalistic universities in the world.
In the 1980s he was a reporter of the Japanese television station and wrote the book “Big Miracle” (“Great Miracle”) about the operation of release whales from the Arctic ice. “Rose has a wonderful ability to combine facts, and the story he tells is funny, full of irony and concerns not only whales” – reviewed the New York Times in 1989. In 2012, the book had a Hollywood screen with Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski.
Collaborator of the US Vice President
He then worked in publications such as Hollinger International, Horizon Publications and Continental Newsplars. In the years 1997–2005 he was the publisher and head of the Jerusalem Post. According to his profile on LinkedIn, he also acted in the authorities of the state of Indiana, where he came from. He sat, among others, on the Indiana judicial nomination committee and the Indiana Audit Committee in 2013-2016.
In 2017, the governor of Indiana awarded him “Sagame of the Wabash”, the highest civil award of this state, awarded to people acting on his behalf. On the list of distinguished we will find, among others, President George HW Bush and the music of Willie Nelson.
During the first term of office of Donald Trump in the White House, Thomas Rose served as the main strategian and senior adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. When in the summer of 2016 there were allegations in the media that Pence as a candidate for vice president “was a bad choice for the Jewish community”, Rose gave an interview to the daily “Jerusalem Post”, in which he described Pence as his “closest friend for over 25 years” . – (it's an attempt) of slander and defamation of one of the best friends you have ever had Israel And the Jewish people – said Rose, and the sources of criticism of Mike Pence saw in the fact that “mainstream organizations, organized entities of the Jewish community, are more and more pushed to the left.”
Mike Pence, US Vice President in 2017-2021Shutterstock
New Ambassador about USAID and Gaza Zone
Currently, Thomas Rose is a co-host of the conservative Talk shows and the Bauer & Rose Show podcast on the satellite radio Siriusxm, whose last episode appeared on Thursday. Rose assessed in it the American US Aid Agency liquidated by Donald Trump and Elon Musk as “the greatest operation of money laundering Democrats in history.” He also told himself with Ukraine And he rejected the theses – suggested, among others by Donald Trump – that War in Ukraine was provoked by NATO.
According to the silhouette published in 2011, “Indianapolis Monthly”, Rose was a “fiery conservative, die -hard Zionist and orthodox Jew.” He is also a common commentator on Israel and the Middle East in the American and Israeli media, who often criticized the president Joe Biden for “leaving” Israel and “Propalestine sympathies”. After Donald Trump announced at the beginning of the week that the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip “should be resettled to neighboring Arab countries“, Rose has released several entries praising this idea.
Thomas Rose about Poland
On the X Thomas Rose platform also spoke about Poland. He criticized the government Donald Tusk in the context of discussion about the possible visit of Benjamin Netanyahu in Poland in the face of the arrest warrant issued by the MTK. In other entries he also criticized the changes introduced by the current Polish government in public media.
“It was an honor for me to meet America's best friend in Europe, Polish President Andrzej Duda,” he said in the entry, which he published in December 2024. A photo joined him with the President of the Republic of Poland.
In the past, Rose also referred to social media to Polish history. In 2019, he published an entry in which he commented on the apology of the NBC journalist Andrei Mitchell, who mistakenly attributed to the Polish authorities “commitment” in suppressing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. “The Polish government was not only not” involved “in suppressing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – the Polish government, refusing to surrender to Hitler, moved to London, where he joined the Allies to continue the fight for the liberation of Poland and all occupied Europe from Nazi hell” – he wrote.
Rose “supporter of NATO” as “defensive alliance”
The appointment of Thomas Rose Ambassador in Poland has already been the first comments in Poland. American and publicist RafaÅ‚ Michalski admitted on Friday that this information surprised him. “A very right -wing publicist who has focused all his attention on cooperation with Israel,” he said on the portal X.
Michalski estimated that Rose “is a supporter of NATO” as “the defensive alliance in which European countries can guarantee their own security.” The Americanist pointed out that, according to the new ambassador, “Israel is a 'perfect' ally of the United States – self -sufficient, which protects the interests of the US by protecting his interests.” “In his opinion, such a direction should have foreign US policy – cooperation, not maintaining” – he emphasized.
The Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, PAP, TVN24.pl
Source of the main photo: Tom Rose/x