Furious Poland Destroys Trump in Surprise Election
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What message did Poland send in the recent election?
That was in Poland right there. Poland sending a major pro-democracy, pro-European Union message as well. Earlier yesterday, there was the Romania elections where the pro-democracy, pro-EU candidate went on to become the president. This was the first round voting in Poland. The next round scheduled for June 1. And the pro-democracy, liberal voting
Who is Rafal Trzaskowski and what did he campaign on?
Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzasky is going to go on to win that first round against the far right wing candidate, Nowacki, who many people expected the far right wing rival, who's a MAGA candidate, who sucks up to Donald Trump. He calls himself like the Trump of Poland. People thought Karola Nowacki was going to win that. Now we go to this second round on June 1st.
What are the implications of the MAGA influence in Poland?
We're going to, of course, be paying a lot of attention to that here on the Midas Touch Network. Let me just share with you what Karol Nowrocki had campaigned on. You'll see he's just constantly talking about Trump this, Trump that. I'm the MAGA candidate. So here was a speech that he gave. Here, play this clip. And the most powerful man in the free world, Donald Trump.
is supporting Karol Navrotsky.
And the most powerful person in the world, Donald Trump, supports Karol Navrotsky. Karol!
Karol! Karol!
And again, this was an obvious repudiation of the Trump MAGA candidate. And again, we reported yesterday how in Romania, the far right wing candidate Simeon was expected to go on and win originally. The odds were that the right-wing candidate was going to win. You then had the centrist candidate, who was the mayor of Bucharest, went on to win in Romania. We did a whole video on that as well. One of the things that I think was very important in this Polish election was Mayor Rafal Trusowski ran on a strong pro-Ukraine platform, anti-Putin platform. as well as building the military forces up in Poland, creating a first-class military to stop Vladimir Putin. I want to share with you, I thought this was an important moment, because the views of Rafal Trusowski mirror the Prime Minister Donald Tusk. I'll explain how the Poland government works. A very confused prime minister, president. But here was Donald Tusk recently. Let's play this clip. I mean, here he is talking about, you know, standing up to Putin.
And when Putin didn't show in Istanbul, Turkey, I think it was a big sign that impacted this election as well. Remember how I reported on how Putin and Trump said they were going to go to Istanbul to negotiate with Zelensky. Zelensky showed up in Istanbul, but Putin and Trump didn't. Here, let's play this clip of Donald Tusk.
How does the Polish government structure affect elections?
We met again after a few days in the same format with President Zelensky. We spoke on the phone with President Trump to summarize the negotiation attempts that started in Istanbul. The information was clear. The Russian side did not show goodwill. The Russian side did not intend to negotiate in the presence of the American side. The Russian side once again set conditions that were absolutely unacceptable not only to Ukraine but also to all of us. We will continue to work together. The main task is to maintain full unity both of European and American partners around the Ukrainian issue. This task remains current. We do not hide that the Russian position, it is hard to call it constructive in any way.
What role does Ukraine play in the Polish election?
We are likely facing very difficult days ahead.
So in Poland's parliamentary system, they have a prime minister who's the head of government and a president who is the head of state. I would say the prime minister has more day-to-day power. The president as head of state kind of functions as a veto power over the prime minister. So currently the prime minister, Donald Tusk, very similar political background, I would say, to Rafal Truskowski. And then when it comes to this MAGA candidate right here who did not win this round, although let's be clear, there's a second round, Carol Naraki, I think his views mostly align, I guess, more closely with Duda, who's the current president, although Naraki, the guy who's running right now, is an independent candidate.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What message did Poland send in the recent election?
0:05–0:31
2
Who is Rafal Trzaskowski and what did he campaign on?
0:31–0:59
3
What are the implications of the MAGA influence in Poland?
0:59–3:31
4
How does the Polish government structure affect elections?
3:31–4:21
5
What role does Ukraine play in the Polish election?
4:21–6:41
6
How does the current geopolitical situation impact Poland?
6:41–10:22
7
What are the recent responses to Russian aggression?
10:22–16:16