Polish President Wants To name Military Base ‘Fort Trump’ (Video)

Although the New York Times continues to be surprised that US President Trump has allies around the world, the European press knows this fact for a while already. Over on the ‘old continent,’ there isn’t one single large nation more sympathetic towards him than Poland, the 40 million strong neighbor to Germany who has seen their economy skyrocket in the past decade.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&#39;Fort Trump&#39; in Poland? Polish President Andrzej Duda wants to set up a permanent U.S. military base named after President Trump. <a href="https://t.co/Zg7vOc2hJ6">pic.twitter.com/Zg7vOc2hJ6</a></p>&mdash; Newsweek (@Newsweek) <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1042144682107695107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2018</a></blockquote>

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During a visit to the White House, Polish President Andrzej Duda that he would welcome a permanent US military base in his country, for which his government would gladly pay, and declared that he would name it “Fort Trump.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">During discussions this afternoon, President Trump and President Duda agreed to bolster America and Poland’s robust defense cooperation in military relations, intelligence, missile defense, and training. <a href="https://t.co/F7WrChH2V4">pic.twitter.com/F7WrChH2V4</a></p>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1042134749266014208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Mr. Duda, standing beside the US President, claimed: “I would like to invite the US president to post more American troops to Poland. And we want to invest further, we want to modernize Polish armed forces.”

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He then stated that Poland would continue its military buildup and declared his nation wanted to buy more arms from the US.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A very productive visit with President Andrzej Duda &amp; First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda at the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a> this afternoon! <a href="https://t.co/0PmXhstjuu">pic.twitter.com/0PmXhstjuu</a></p>&mdash; Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1042146815448109057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2018</a></blockquote>

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“We are implementing the largest military investment so far over the last 30 years. We want to implement more projects. We want to buy more equipment. And I’m convinced that this cooperation between Poland and the United States will go on smoothly.”

“I would very much like for us to set up permanent American bases in Poland which we would call Fort Trump.”

Source:

https://www.newsweek.com/fort-trump-poland-requests-permanent-us-military-base-named-after-donald-1127157

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