On Sunday evening, after the Zelensky-Trump summit, the President of the Republic of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, took part in discussions devoted to the outcomes of the meeting. This triggered an attack from the ruling camp, led by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski. “Sikorski attacks the president instead of supporting and coordinating actions. In my view, Tusk’s team is acting like a fifth column. Saboteurs squared,” said Janusz Kowalski, an MP from Law and Justice (PiS).
On Sunday, an exchange took place on social media between Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki. When Nawrocki responded to Tusk’s accusatory post, the head of government replied only – after 4:00 p.m. – “Indeed, it’s hard to believe. Sweet dreams.” Tusk then also wished good luck to Volodymyr Zelensky, who was holding talks in the United States with President Donald Trump.
Tusk sleeps, and the president saves Poland’s honor
Meanwhile, after the bilateral talks between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, a videoconference of leaders took place with the participation of President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki.
“President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki took part in a teleconference of European leaders with the President of the United States Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The state of the peace talks was discussed, aimed at bringing an end to the war in Ukraine caused by Russia. President Karol Nawrocki emphasized President Trump’s strong commitment to the peace process and thanked him for today’s conversation. He noted that since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the Rzeszów-Jasionka airport has served as a hub for more than 90% of aid to Ukraine. Hence, Poland’s position at the moment of signing a peace agreement will be crucial,” reported the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland shortly before 11:00 p.m. Polish time.
Trump himself also spoke about the talks, including those with Karol Nawrocki, during a press conference.
Today, these talks were commented on on the air of TV Republika by Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, an adviser to the President of the Republic of Poland.
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According to Saryusz-Wolski, the presence of President Nawrocki in such situations “saves Poland’s honor,” adding that “let us have no illusions – the fundamental negotiations are taking place behind closed doors without the Europeans. This also shows the great absentee, namely the current Polish government, and the inconsistency of what they do – on the one hand they say that foreign policy is their domain, and when the highest need arises for the Polish voice to be present, they ask President Nawrocki to do it.”
Attack by the December 13 coalition
The fact that the President of the Republic of Poland took part in the post-summit talks in Mar-a-Lago was evidently not to the liking of the ruling camp.
On Monday morning, the head of Polish diplomacy, Radosław Sikorski, launched an attack.
“After the Anschluss of Crimea, I would not have gone to a museum promoting a Stalinist version of the Second World War,” Sikorski wrote, recalling a visit to Moscow made in 2018 by Karol Nawrocki in his capacity as head of the Museum of the Second World War. Nawrocki had already spoken about this visit during the election campaign, specifically in March 2025, stressing that its purpose was to pursue Polish historical policy. “And that was also the purpose of my visit to Moscow (…). I told the director of the Victory Museum, that is, the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, that the war began in 1939, not in 1941 as Moscow would like. I also invited him to the World Battlefield Forum so that he could see what the historical truth and interpretation of historical events are,” Karol Nawrocki said. He added that he had also met at the time with the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Moscow, “proposing the exhibition ‘Struggle and Suffering’ to be shown in Moscow, and to remind all of Moscow that September 17, 1939, is a concrete date in the calendar of the 20th century, and that the Soviet Union was a perpetrator of the Second World War.”
“We already have posts from the government establishment attacking the president. Radosław Sikorski has the audacity to write something like this – a man who pursued a reset policy, the most pro-Russian policy of any Polish government after 1989,” commented Michał Rachoń, program director of TV Republika.
Janusz Kowalski, an MP from Law and Justice (PiS), also pointed out that after the conversation with Trump, Zelensky and other leaders, President Nawrocki would become the target of government attacks. “President Karol Nawrocki on Sunday restores Poland’s agency in talks about Ukraine. On Monday morning at 7:31, Tusk’s minister Radosław Sikorski attacks the president instead of supporting and coordinating actions. In my view, Tusk’s team is acting like a fifth column. Saboteurs squared,” he wrote.
Bosacki: A change occurred at the last moment
How does the ruling camp explain the fact that it was the president, not the prime minister, who discussed the outcomes of the meeting in the United States? Marcin Bosacki, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSZ), claimed that it was the doing of the Americans.
“In more than 90% of talks in this format, Donald Tusk takes part, but when it comes to the Americans, this is not the first time, but I think the third, that they change the interlocutor from Poland. (…) I wouldn’t say it’s a surprise, because it has already happened twice, but it certainly requires greater and better coordination on our side than so far, because, as I say, until Saturday evening Donald Tusk took part in all preparations for this summit in Florida, he spoke with Zelensky and several other European leaders, and at the last moment the Americans called the president, not the prime minister,” Bosacki said on TVP Info.