Trump reportedly offered Kosiniak-Kamysz to change Poland’s government — Notes from Poland

Polish media, citing unnamed sources, reported that US President Donald Trump allegedly offered Poland’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, during a March conversation to leave Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coalition and form a government with the right-wing opposition. Notes from Poland writes about this.

Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed that he briefly spoke with Trump at the White House on 2 March. This happened during a ceremony to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to US serviceman Michael Ollis. The minister also noted the role of the office of Polish President Karol Nawrocki in arranging the conversation.

Media reports

Journalist Dominika Wielowieyska said that her unnamed interlocutors had reported Trump’s alleged proposal to Kosiniak-Kamysz to form a coalition with right-wing forces. According to her version, such a government was promised full support from the United States and the presidential administration.

The right-wing broadcaster Republika, also citing unnamed sources, reported signs of the US side’s interest in changing Poland’s prime minister. Kosiniak-Kamysz did not disclose the content of the conversation and called it informal. He denied that the parties discussed the deployment of a permanent US military base in Poland.

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Government reaction

Tusk told TVN that the defence minister informed him about the meeting with Trump immediately afterwards. According to the prime minister, military bases were not the subject of the conversation, which concerned Poland’s internal situation.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said that the meeting’s organiser, presidential adviser Nikodem Rachoń, was to prepare an official note, but the ministry did not receive it. Sikorski suggested that the meeting could have been an attempt to involve a foreign state in Poland’s internal politics.

The Polish People’s Party, led by Kosiniak-Kamysz, is part of Tusk’s governing coalition. Its departure from the coalition would deprive the government of its parliamentary majority, but the party and its leader have repeatedly declared loyalty to the current alliance.