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Eugene

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Thu Aug 14, 2025, 01:12 PM Aug 2025

Trump asked Polish President Nawrocki to replace Tusk in Ukraine meeting

Source: Reuters

Trump asked Polish President Nawrocki to replace Tusk in Ukraine meeting

Barbara Erling and Anna Koper
Wed, August 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM EDT
2 min read

WARSAW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump at the last minute requested MAGA-allied Polish President Karol Nawrocki join the Ukraine teleconference with European leaders on Wednesday, according to centrist Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Nawrocki's bitter political rival who had been expected to attend.

Nawrocki, a conservative nationalist and eurosceptic, is an ally of Trump's right-wing populist MAGA political movement and visited the White House during Poland's presidential election campaign this year. He defeated the candidate of Tusk's pro-European, centrist party in June.

"Just before midnight yesterday we received information, alongside our European partners, that the American side would prefer that Poland was represented by the president in contacts with President Trump," Tusk told a news conference.

The White House did not comment whether the U.S. requested Nawrocki rather than Tusk take part in the call.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/president-nawrocki-representing-poland-during-141536347.html

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Trump asked Polish President Nawrocki to replace Tusk in Ukraine meeting (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2025 OP
TSF prefers to stack the deck again against Ukraine and turning this into a shitshow. Deuxcents Aug 2025 #1
So, now he gets to pick the leaders of OTHER COUNTRIES ?? What is wrong with this man ? eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 #2

Deuxcents

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1. TSF prefers to stack the deck again against Ukraine and turning this into a shitshow.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 01:18 PM
Aug 2025

Maybe that melting glacier will put an end to this one as he’s being disrespectful to Ukraine..again

eppur_se_muova

(40,575 posts)
2. So, now he gets to pick the leaders of OTHER COUNTRIES ?? What is wrong with this man ?
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:08 PM
Aug 2025

I know, the list is too long.

But what kind of asshole would even think to make such a suggestion ?

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