Donald Trump and Rejtan's chest – “It's me” by Andrzej Duda

– What is the point of this guy who lies and shows his chest – asked Donald Trump, pointing to the painting.

– He is our hero Tadeusz Rejtan, protesting against the agreement to demolish Poland – Andrzej Duda replied. Shortly after this Trump pointed out to Duda that ships with liquefied LNG could besides sail from the USA to Poland.

– If you offer a good price, Duda replied.

Churchill utilized to say, sitting to his memories, that past would be kind to him, due to the fact that he would describe it himself. This not only political, but besides literary genius, and at the same time the king of self-promotion, has become a model for many generations of leaders and politicians trying to make them remembered as they want them to, or simply not to forget their merits. They have been joined by president Andrzej Duda, who has just published his memoirs entitled ‘It's me’, and now with admirable enthusiasm he is intensively promoting them.

If individual hopes that reading will enter the planet of defeats, politics, the art of sausage making to mention to Bismarck's celebrated comparison, they will be disappointed. However, if he wants to know a large part of the scenes and circumstances of political decisions and see what function this president played, he will be pleased.

“It’s me” that reads well and seems to be a reasonably honest story, though, as this kind of literature is meant to be – self-promotional.

“It’s me” and “it’s us”

Lech Kaczyński, War in Ukraine (including relations with Volodymyr Zelenski), Donald Trump. These are the 3 most crucial and interesting themes of the book included in the names. In all of them, Andrzej Duda played a crucial role. Duda leads us through meanders of difficult, variable relations with natural Zelenski and amazingly close relations with Donald Trump, who always treats transactional reality, always doing business, just like now in Alaska.

And what of Lech Kaczyński, who, if he had heard of Trump, would have doubted him due to the fact that he was not yet a crucial figure in the planet of politics? From the book – and not only from it – 1 can get the impression that actually the president of Andrzej Duda was an extension of the presidency of the tragically deceased president with a five-year break to the government. Even looking at any personnel casts at the law firm and the NSA, that's confirmed.

“It is me” that does not include a list of names, but Lech Kaczyński is 1 of the most frequently appearing characters, despite the fact that the book deals with Duda's period of holding the presidency, and is not a full biography of the erstwhile president.

Lech Kaczyński on the right is treated with large devotion, besides due to the fact that it is appropriate, but the devotion of Andrzej Duda to the memory of his erstwhile boss is very authentic. I didn't just see it erstwhile I read that book.

Many things were simply a continuation of that term. Although any show how complicated present is the translation of who has merit and who has disturbed. This is the case with gas and many another investments. Here again, the president explains not even “it’s me” but “it’s us”. The issue is not simple, due to the fact that long-term projects caught up with different governments and different partners abroad, primarily in the US.

Andrzej Duda describes, for example, the minute erstwhile the American anti-missile base was established in Redzikov, whose initiation was a continuation of actions years ago, initiated mostly by the presidential palace. The first talks on it were held by Witold Waszczykowski, inactive as Deputy Minister of abroad Affairs during the first regulation of the Law and then the presidential minister. The task was halted for Barack Obama's presidency, and then returned to him.

Is it Donald Trump, or did Obama give him a fresh boost? That's debatable. The construction of the base took on the full regulation of the Law and Justice, but it extended and was yet completed and opened in the days of the PO.

Andrzej Duda writes with bitterness about looking at the ribbon cutting Radosław Sikorski, who in his opinion blocked the construction. He besides cites the words of Lech Kaczyński, who said that the creation of this base would give us assurance that we are not in the Russian sphere of influence.

However, Jarosław Kaczyński is not very much present on the memory cards of the President. Among more than 250 illustrations, the president of the Law and Justice Office, yet the undisputed leader of the camp, who elevated Andrzej Duda to power, performs on 1 occasion: together with his niece Marta Kaczyńska, under commemoration dedicated to her father Lech in gas pipeline in Świnoujście.

Andrzej Duda mentions hard and even "very difficult" relations during the ten-year presidency. But he besides admits that Kaczyński is simply a real leader, who was able to bravely act in situations where even the president was "eating his hair on his head."

I have the impression that the President's book gives a large explanation field, and the ability to read meanings is most likely straight proportional to the degree of introduction.

Effective Dignity

Andrzej Duda does not escape from private subjects in the book, but does not epatify them. We can find out what his proposal looked like, the minute his daughter was born, and why Agata Kornhauser-Duda was so uncommon in the media. The erstwhile president admits that the wife has more liberal views than he does, but in fact she knew what the media were capable of.

This seems to have been a problem for the erstwhile head of state, but he had no arguments after they tried to play against the first woman even with anti-Semitic threads. Therefore, the president's wife announced to him that she would not give any interviews due to the fact that “they lie and manipulate.”

Andrzej Duda bitterly and consciously concludes that this has led to even more lamentable effects, due to the fact that the media critics have found this individual vulnerable. The president's attacks first hurt, "clap her teeth," as the president writes, then got utilized to.

Andrzej Duda has a distance to himself and this is simply a trait that besides earned him quite a few sympathy. As he recalls, while working at the Chancellery of Lech Kaczyński, being yet a very crucial official, he set up an account on the popular website “Our Class”. The chief of safety knocks it out of his head, and the president admits that the work then did not shine.

But that's fundamentally the communicative of a man who's fulfilled and satisfied with himself. Eventually, the book ends with photographs and a description of Karol Nawrocki's tour of the presidential palace. any of Andrzej Duda's officials remain. This comfort was not in Polish politics anyone. Charles Nawrocki would not have had a chance if most voters underestimated this head of state. It was Andrzej Duda who ensured to a large degree the right-wing chances of returning to power, which does not always appreciate.

But that's not all. The president in Poland does not have "own media", and camps affecting public opinion are divided into those that favour current prime ministers or their possible competitors.

The president besides does not have as extended propaganda equipment as the government – funds that always include funds for promotion, money from State Treasury companies and a mass of another tools. He has any symbolic means, he can invite, let contact his majesty, ignore, sometimes laughter at how the Duds did it for the current MFA spokesperson in 2020.

Therefore, even the media favorably treat the head of state with dignity, but a small sidelined with the heads of government. As it turns out, especially on abroad policy issues, frequently wrongly.

For Poland, good relations between Duda and Trump, but besides not the worst with Joe Biden, proved crucial from the position of our security, which is the most crucial thing. Andrzej Duda decided to describe it and did it interestingly, although there is inactive no insight into the interview with the erstwhile president. For now, ‘It is I’ that is mandatory for people who want to realize Polish politics and geopolitics.

Viktor Shinelik