Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy

<p>Ex-Polish leader, who won Nobel prize for pro-democracy efforts, compares meeting to a communist interrogation</p><p>The former Polish president and Nobel peace prize winner Lech Wałęsa has signed a letter to Donald Trump expressing “horror and distaste” at his argument with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the White House last week.</p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/lechwalesa/posts/1205977244231523?ref=embed_post">The letter</a>, signed by Wałęsa and more than 30 former Polish political prisoners held during the communist era, said Trump and his vice-president’s demands that Zelenskyy show gratitude were “insulting” in the face of the Ukrainian country’s fight for freedom.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/03/polish-ex-president-lech-walesa-expresses-horror-and-distaste-at-donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskyy-jd-vance-spat">Continue reading...</a>