Polish Skepticism Toward the United States and President Trump Deepens

Pew Research Center’s June-2026 survey shows confidence in President Donald Trump fell to 29 % of Poles, down from 35 % a year earlier and 75 % during the Biden administration. Favorable views of the United States dropped to 49 %, while the share that still regards the U.S. as a reliable partner slipped to 57 %.

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Poland has been one of Europe’s most pro-American nations, with favorable U.S. ratings reaching 93 % in 2023 and a reliability perception of 85 % in 2022. The current downturn reverses a decade-long pattern of strong trans-Atlantic support.

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• Pew: 29 % confidence in Trump; 49 % favorable view of the U.S.; 57 % see the U.S. as reliable.

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• Pew recorded a decline to 49 % who say the U.S. respects its own citizens’ freedoms, down from 79 % in 2008.

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• SW Research (Feb. 2026) found 53 % of Poles no longer view the United States as a reliable ally.

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• CBOS poll placed Trump as the third-most distrusted world leader in Poland, behind Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko.

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk affirmed that the United States remains Poland’s principal security partner while warning against any “vassal” relationship. Nawrocki’s senior foreign-policy aide urged the government to capitalize on Trump’s pledge to send 5,000 troops to Poland. The Trump administration announced the troop increase after a cancelled rotational deployment of roughly 4,000 soldiers earlier in the year. Pew described the findings as evidence of “increasing negative views in almost all surveyed nations, including Poland.”

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Speaker of the Sejm Wlodzimierz Czarzasty labeled Trump “irrational” and a “leader of chaos.” Tusk also condemned the U.S. decision to grant a visa to former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro as “outrageous.” These remarks illustrate growing friction between the centrist-left coalition government and right-wing elements aligned with Trump, such as President Nawrocki, who attended the U.S. president’s 80th-birthday celebration.

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Pew’s 57 % reliability rating contrasts with SW Research’s 53 % of respondents who say the U.S. is no longer reliable, indicating a methodological gap. No official details have confirmed the deployment of the promised 5,000 troops, leaving the scale and timing of the reinforcement uncertain.

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• “The following month, Tusk declared that Poland would never be a “vassal” of the United States.” — Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland

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Polish officials plan to lobby for redeployment of U.S. forces from Germany to Poland before the end of 2026. Polling will track whether public sentiment stabilizes or further erodes as the troop discussion proceeds.

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