Trump and Polish President Duda Discuss Ukraine and Middle East Wars at Dinner in New York

Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda discussed the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East at a dinner on Wednesday in New York, the US president’s re-election campaign said.

The Trump real estate mogul, on a one-day vacation from a court appearance in his criminal trial, hosted Duda at his Trump Tower property in Manhattan.

“He’s done a great job and he’s my friend, and we had four great years together” when both were presidents at the same time, Trump said, standing with Duda there the video clip posted on Trump’s Truth Social account.

“We might have to do it again.”

The Trump campaign said the two men discussed Duda’s proposal for NATO countries to increase their target for defense spending from two percent of GDP to three percent.

Trump has often criticized NATO and said that its members do not pay what he calls their fair share.

“They also discussed the war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict with Israel in the Middle East, and many other topics related to achieving world peace,” the Trump campaign said in a statement.

When not tied up in legal matters, the Republican White House candidate has been doing a kind of shadow diplomacy, as other countries prepare for the possibility of a second Trump presidency.

He has been holding meetings with world leaders and fighting against the foreign policy of his opponent in November, President Joe Biden.

Trump discussed NATO policy and the Ukraine war with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron last week, and hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago on last month.

Conservative Duda even suggested building a US military base “Fort Trump” on Polish soil.

Amid Trump’s false claims questioning his own 2020 election loss, Duda took more than a month to congratulate Biden on his presidential victory.

AFP