The conversation of President Andrzej Duda with Donald Trump lasted only ten minutes, although it was expected to take an hour. – We should be glad that to discuss matters fundamentally important for Poland, the state, not only the front, but also the country neighboring with Ukraine, Donald Trump found “five minutes” – commented on TVN24 dr Agnieszka Bryc from the Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Presidents of Poland and USA They met at the Gaylord National Convention Center at the National Harbor (Stan Maryland) near Washington, where the Conference Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest political event of the American right wing. The meeting was to start at 19.30, but it was delayed and lasted – as Bloomberg said, “ten minutes”.
– Donald Trump At 19:00 he was to leave the White House to reach the Conference at 19.20. – I look at my e -mail inbox and I don't have information from the White House so that Donald Trump will leave the White House. This means that everything is delayed for us – said Wrona. As the reporter said earlier, the meeting of the presidents could last an hour.
President Andrzej Duda was “on the spot” at that time, that is at the Gaylord National Convention Center.
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Prepared for a long time and kept secret
Duda's meeting with Trump, as previously reported by the Polish Press Agency, citing interlocutors in PiSit was prepared for a long time and kept secret. Together with the Polish president, the head of his office Marcin Mastalerek, head of the International Policy Office at the President's Office Wojciech Kolarski and his deputy Nikodem Rachoń went to the USA.
In talks on the American side, as Marcin Wrona reported before the meeting – the “Iron Lady of American Policy”, the head of the White House of Susia Wiles, whose Trump “trusts” and the US national security advisor Mike Waltz was supposed to participate.
Trump – according to the correspondent of “Facts”, TVN had left the White House at 19 o'clock, but he did it almost an hour later, about which at 20.01 he informed the live portal of the American CNN station. “Donald Trump just left the White House and went to the Conservative Political Action Conference in the suburbs of Washington. When leaving, he briefly talked to reporters, telling them that he would answer their questions in his speech on the stage” – reported television.
According to the information agency, Duda with Trump began exactly at 20.27, and 20.40 Trump was already on stage, where he gave a speech.
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The Reuters agency noted that during the “short meeting” Duda told Trump that “it is necessary to strengthen the presence of the US in Poland and Central Europe.” Duda himself, referring to a short conversation time, said that “no meeting with President Trump is not long enough.”
Andrzej Duda and Donald TrumpMarek Borawski/KPRP
“However, this is something”
– We should be happy that to discuss matters fundamentally important for Poland, the state, not only the front, flank, but also the country neighboring with UkraineDonald Trump found “five minutes” – commented on TVN24 a political scale, dr Agnieszka Bryc from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
She added that “the expectations were high, but the rate is raised very high, that it can be said: well, let's assume that these five minutes were found and that Trump found five minutes to confirm the fact of remains of American troops in Poland” .
– Let us be aware that the Russians will try to push through the option to force Americans to somehow reduce their real presence on the eastern wall, in the immediate vicinity of Russia and the “absorbed” by her Belarusian ally – added the interlocutor of TVN24.
She also emphasized that “these five (Bryter in the conversation corrected that it was 10 minutes – ed.) President Duda”, however, is something “. – It is important to keep his finger on the pulse – added Agnieszka Bryc.
Andrzej Duda and Donald TrumpThe White House/X
Source of the main photo: Marek Borawski/KPRP