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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