{"id":1404341,"date":"2022-03-28T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404341"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:00:15","slug":"pollak-when-trump-in-warsaw-warned-the-world-about-russia-media-called-him-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pollak-when-trump-in-warsaw-warned-the-world-about-russia-media-called-him-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollak: When Trump, in Warsaw, Warned the World About Russia, Media Called Him Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpollak-when-trump-in-warsaw-warned-the-world-about-russia-media-called-him-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404341&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Trump-Poland.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday that is being hailed by supporters for its tough stance on Russia, and derided by critics for the fact that Biden suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin be removed from power.<\/p>\n<p>The White House walked back Biden\u2019s provocative gaffe. That did not stop Biden\u2019s defenders in the media from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillKristol\/status\/1508086913193947145\">proclaiming<\/a> his speech to be the boldest since Ronald Reagan stood in Berlin and declared: \u201cMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>There is ongoing debate about whether Biden should have cast the conflict in Ukraine as a clash between democracy and dictatorship. Regardless, what the pro-Biden pundits forget is that long before Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/03\/26\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-united-efforts-of-the-free-world-to-support-the-people-of-ukraine\/\">declared<\/a> in Warsaw that \u201cthe West is now stronger and more united than it has ever been,\u201d President Donald Trump gave an address in Warsaw that called on the West to unite against Russia and other threats to western \u201ccivilization.\u201d And for that, he was called a racist by the media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>President Trump had chosen Poland as the site for his speech because of its importance on the front lines of the rivalry between NATO and Russia. He <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/briefings-statements\/remarks-president-trump-people-poland\/\">declared<\/a> to the world:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.<br \/>Today, the West is also confronted by the powers that seek to test our will, undermine our confidence, and challenge our interests. To meet new forms of aggression, including propaganda, financial crimes, and cyberwarfare, we must adapt our alliance to compete effectively in new ways and on all new battlefields.<\/p>\n<p>We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes \u2014 including Syria and Iran \u2014 and to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For daring to defend \u201ccivilization\u201d and the West, Trump was pilloried as an extreme nationalist at best, a white supremacist at worst.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/07\/07\/leftist-intellectuals-claim-trumps-warsaw-speech-racist\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Left-wing pundits reacted angrily to President Donald Trump\u2019s speech in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, accusing him of racism for defending the \u201cWest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peter Beinart, writing in\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/07\/trump-speech-poland\/532866\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">asserted<\/a>: \u201cThe West is a racial and religious term.\u201d He added: \u201cTo be considered Western, a country must be largely Christian (preferably Protestant or Catholic) and largely white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Jeet Heer, at the\u00a0<em>New Republic<\/em>, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/143746\/international-brotherhood-white-grievance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">called<\/a> Trump\u2019s address an \u201calt-right\u201d speech in a commentary titled: \u201cAn International Brotherhood of White Grievance.\u201d He likened Trump\u2019s ideas to those of Pat Buchanan, adding: \u201cSuch rhetoric is meant to conjure blood-and-soil nationalism. Here, Trump is defining the West not based on ideals like democracy and liberty, but atavistic loyalties to territory and shared kinship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s Eugene Robinson was somewhat more restrained, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/07\/in_his_puzzling_speech_in_poland_trump_addressed_an_alternative_world_134396.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">deriding<\/a>\u00a0Trump for portraying history \u201cas a zero-sum clash of civilizations in which \u2018the West\u2019 can triumph by imposing its will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that Trump had adopted an outdated, imperialistic perspective: \u201cThe speech Trump delivered Thursday in Warsaw\u2019s Krasinski Square might have been appropriate when Britannia ruled the waves and Europe\u2019s great powers held dominion over \u201clesser\u201d peoples around the globe. It had nothing useful to say about today\u2019s interconnected world in which goods, people and ideas have contempt for borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden is being praised by the media for saying what Trump said \u2014 and doing so <em>after<\/em> Russia has already invaded a pro-western European country.<\/p>\n<p>Had the media actually\u00a0<em>listened<\/em> to what Trump said about the need to unite in defense of the West, rather than projecting their racial obsessions onto him, perhaps the West would have been prepared for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday that is being hailed by supporters for its tough stance on Russia, and derided by critics for the fact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}