Trump is welcomed in Warsaw ahead of speech to thousands bused in by the government – as ordinary Poles say 'anyone who Merkel and Putin don't like is good news for us'

U.S. president landed Wednesday night in Warsaw for meetings with Poland and other nations engaged in a new trading bloc that weakens Russia

Dignitaries – but not the Polish president – greeted the Trumps on an airport tarmac, along with a small military honor guard and the U.S. ambassador

Poles see Trump's nationalism as a mirror of their own as they push back against EU mandates on immigration and refugee resettlement

'There is no love for Germany in Poland,' one man said Wednesday on a Warsaw street; 'Screw Russia. We don't need Russia,' said another

Trump will speak Thursday in Krasinski Square, where a monument stands to a 1944 popular uprising against German occupation

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com In Warsaw, Poland
Published: 14:01 EDT, 5 July 2017 | Updated: 17:13 EDT, 5 July 2017

The nation of Poland prepared a hero's welcome for U.S. President Donald Trump in advance of his Wednesday night arrival in Warsaw. But the Polish government executed a decidedly understated ceremony to greet Air Force One at Chopin Airport.

Lawmakers in the formerly communist nation see in Trump a mirror of their own brand of nationalism that has seen many Poles bristle against an iron-fisted European Union centered on Germany.

Among the European nations, Poland is one of the holdouts against the notion of resettling massive numbers of foreigners.

'The Polish government has the same position as Americans — we want strict restrictions on refugees,” legislator Krzysztof Mróz told The Wall Street Journal.

For Trump's arrival, President Andrzej Duda sent his top aides to put on a far smaller affair than the all-out pomp and circumstance that awaited the U.S. leader in Saudi Arabia when he deplaned on his first foreign presidential trip six weeks ago.

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Polish TV networks lined the motorcade route with cameras, careful to catch every bump and turn-signal on a live national broadcast.

The president is visiting Warsaw in advance of the G20 summit in Hamburg

On Thursday the nation of Frederick Chopin, Nicolaus Copernicus and Pope John Paul II hopes to make a bigger splash.

Mróz, the legislator, sent two busloads of Trump supporters on a 300 mile trek to Warsaw to see Trump speak in Krasinski Square, where a monument stands to a 1944 popular uprising against German occupation.

In every corner of Poland, in fact, citizens were offered free transportation to Warsaw if they wanted to be a part of the Trump show.

There have been lots of takers: In a nation where Nazis built the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, resentment against Germany still runs blood-deep.

And as German Chancellor Angela Merkel leads the EU toward a more collectivist destiny, modern Poles are still in a resistance mode that Trump will tap in his speech Thursday.

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