U.S. Ties With Key NATO Ally Fray Over Trump's Quest for Nobel Peace Prize (not the onion)
WARSAW—A row broke out between the U.S. and one of its most important NATO partners this week after it emerged that a leading Polish official refused to sign up to a lobbying effort to get President Trump awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The speaker of Poland’s lower house, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, had fobbed off a joint U.S. and Israeli initiative to secure a wave of nominations from around the world for Trump to be awarded the 2026 prize later this year, calling the American leader a destabilizing force in international politics.
The U.S. ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, hit back on X, writing that the embassy would cut ties with Czarzasty, accusing him of firing “outrageous and unprovoked insults” against Trump, and provoking a vociferous backlash in Poland. Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who presides over a center-left coalition government, responded to the post on X, saying: “Mr. Ambassador Rose, allies should respect, not lecture, each other. At least this is how we, here in Poland, understand partnership.”
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This week’s dispute, though, puts Poland on a growing list of countries to attract the ire of the U.S. administration as Trump publicly strives for the award.
Trump blamed Norway earlier this year after the Nobel Committee, based in Norway, gave the peace prize to a Venezuelan political activist. He then linked his attempts to gain the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland to his failure to clinch the prize, telling the Norwegian prime minister that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace.”
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