The US ambassador to Poland has said he is suspending all contacts with Poland’s parliament Speaker.
Ambassador Tom Rose accused Wlodzimierz Czarzasty of making “outrageous and unprovoked insults” with regard to US President Donald Trump seeking the Nobel Peace Prize.
In response to the comments, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused the ambassador of “lecturing” and disrespecting Poles.
Czarzasty, who leads the Left Party and was in the 1980s a member of the Communist party, said a few days before that he would not support efforts to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. He argued that the US President did not deserve the award and called Trump’s Board of Peace Gaza initiative “illusory”.
According to Czarzasty, Trump has been destabilising the European Union, NATO, the United Nations and the World Health Organisation “with power politics and by using force to pursue transactional policies”.
“This violates the politics of principles and values, and often violates international law. Poland has repeatedly been a victim” of systems in which force is used by great powers to divide the world in subordinate spheres of influence, argued Czarzasty,
He added that in his view, “Trump does not deserve to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Rose wrote in a post on X yesterday that the US embassy would have no further dealings or communications with Czarzasty.
“Effective immediately, we will have no further dealings, contacts or communications with Marshal of the Sejm Czarzasty, whose outrageous and unprovoked insults were directed against President Trump,” Rose wrote.
Czarzasty, as well as other speakers of European parliaments and the Israeli Knesset, had been approached by the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson to write to the committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize in support of Trump receiving the accolade.
Rose added that Czarzasty had “made himself a serious impediment” to relations between the US and the Polish Government.
“We will not permit anyone to harm US-Polish relations, nor disrespect President Donald Trump, who has done so much for Poland and the Polish people,” he added.
Effective immediately, we will have no further dealings, contacts, or communications with Marshal of the Sejm Czarzasty, whose outrageous and unprovoked insults directed against President Trump @POTUS has made himself a serious impediment to our excellent relations with Prime…
— Ambasador Tom Rose (@USAmbPoland) February 5, 2026
Czarzasty reacted to Rose’s statement by saying he would “continue to defend the good name and honour of Polish soldiers”. That was in relation to criticism of Trump for his remarks that NATO troops had not done enough to help the US in Afghanistan. He said that was one of the reasons he was not prepared to support the US President in his bid for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tusk accused Rose of “lecturing” instead of showing Poles respect.
“Mr Ambassador Rose, allies should respect, not lecture, each other,” Tusk posted on X. “At least this is how we, here in Poland, understand partnership.”
Tusk’s attorney and MP with the ruling party, Roman Giertych, was less diplomatic, calling the ambassador’s remarks “insolent” and an attempt to tell Poles who should represent them. He also compared Trump seeking the Nobel Peace Prize to Roman Emperor Nero’s demand for recognition of his musical talents.
A taste of the current mood in Poland, from a lawmaker who served as deputy prime minister and minister of education, @GiertychRoman https://t.co/HOhwZs9gIK pic.twitter.com/Pdd75LwPaP
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) February 5, 2026
Rose took to X to answer Tusk, saying the Polish PM must have sent his post by mistake and should have sent it to Czarzasty instead for undermining the US-Polish alliance.
Dear Mr. Prime Minister —
I’m assuming your thoughtful and well-articulated message was sent to me by mistake, because surely you intended it for the Speaker of the Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, who’s despicable, disrespectful and insulting comments about President Trump @POTUS… https://t.co/wkcepBNJnS— Ambasador Tom Rose (@USAmbPoland) February 5, 2026
The Conservative (PiS) opposition and the Polish President Karol Nawrocki, who is allied to them, have criticised Czarzasty for being “undiplomatic with Poland’s chief ally”.
PiS MEP Michał Dworczyk told commercial broadcaster Polsat News that he “should have thought through the consequences of his remarks”. He added: “It’s not good when foreign ambassadors speak ill of our politicians” and that “only Poland’s enemies are happy about such incidents”.
The office of Nawrocki has alleged that Czarzasty may have “social and business ties” to Russia.
Nawrocki’s chancellery pointed to the fact that he has not been vetted, whereas the Polish President had been before he held the office of Head of the National Institute of Remembrance, the body which investigates Second World War and Communist crimes.
Czarzasty rejected the allegations on February 4, saying he had “nothing to reproach himself for” and called for Nawrocki’s past to be investigated. That was an allusion to unsubstantiated allegations made against Nawrocki with regard to his activities as a bodyguard in a hotel in Gdańsk, and contacts with criminals who visited a boxing club gym Nawrocki frequented.
He has called a meeting of the National Security Council, an advisory body that includes the highest officials of state, to discuss revelations about Czarzasty, the invitation Nawrocki has received from Trump to be a member of Trump’s Board of Peace, and Poland’s participation in the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) programme.
The falling out between the Tusk centre-left coalition government, which Czarzasty supports, and the Trump administration has come as media speculation mounts that the US wants to see a change of government in Poland. Some say US Government operators have been trying to persuade two parties that are members of Tusk’s present coalition – the centre-right Polish People’s Party (PSL) and the centrist Poland 2050 – to ditch Tusk and form a coalition with PiS.
It has been suggested that the US would prefer that centre-right coalition to any future prospect of the PiS, after the next parliamentary election due in 2027, having to work with the right-wing Confederation of the Polish Crown party led by Grzegorz Braun MEP.
Thast is because the US administration views him as an anti-Semite and sympathiser of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
