On Wednesday evening, April 17, Polish President Andrzej Duda met privately with former head of the White House Donald Trump in New York. They discussed the war in Ukraine and defense spending by NATO countries. Politico writes about it.

Duda and Trump met in New York on April 17. The private dinner is known to have lasted two and a half hours and took place in Trump's apartment in Trump Tower.

The Trump campaign provided little information about the meeting, but said that they discussed Duda's proposal to NATO countries to increase their defense spending to 3% of GDP.

According to the Polish leader, "Russia's imperialist ambitions and aggressive revisionism are pushing Moscow to a direct confrontation with NATO," so the Alliance must be prepared to respond to this threat.

Instead, Trump refused to commit to NATO's defense. He stated that his support depends on member states spending at least 2% of their GDP on defense.

Trump and Duda also discussed the war in Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Hamas.