--- title: Read Donald Trump’s Remarks at Three Seas Initiative Summit description: President Donald Trump addressed a summit of the Three Seas Initiative on Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/4846780/read-donald-trump-speech-warsaw-poland-transcript/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-06T14:25:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:27:09.121Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Donald Trump’s Remarks at the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Poland og:description: He addressed a summit of the Three Seas Initiative on Thursday og:url: https://time.com/4846780/read-donald-trump-speech-warsaw-poland-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1232cc38d7146d/6988d4a14ee2626c3b30e084/170706_donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 170706_Donald Trump Warsaw og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Donald Trump’s Remarks at the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Poland twitter:description: He addressed a summit of the Three Seas Initiative on Thursday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1232cc38d7146d/6988d4a14ee2626c3b30e084/170706_donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Donald Trump’s Remarks at the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Poland by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Jul 6, 2017 2:25 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Poland's President Andrzej Duda after arriving at the Royal Castle, Thursday, July 6, 2017, in Warsaw. U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Poland's President Andrzej Duda after arriving at the Royal Castle, Thursday, July 6, 2017, in Warsaw.Evan Vucci—AP by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Jul 6, 2017 2:25 PM UTC During his first stop in Warsaw, Poland, [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4840830/donald-trump-elise-jordan-normal/) addressed a summit of the Three Seas Initiative on Thursday. Twelve countries — Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Croatia, [Slovenia](http://time.com/4792209/trump-pope-meeting-melania-food/) and Austria — are [a part of the initiative](http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/04/reuters-america-factbox-three-seas-initiative-summit-in-warsaw.html), which seeks to boost economic ties between the United States and ex-communist countries of both central and eastern Europe. Below is a full transcript of the President’s remarks. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4846780/read-donald-trump-speech-warsaw-poland-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4846780/read-donald-trump-speech-warsaw-poland-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Donald Trump’s Remarks at the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Poland","datePublished":"2017-07-06T14:25:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:27:09.121Z","description":"He addressed a summit of the Three Seas Initiative on Thursday.","url":"https://time.com/4846780/read-donald-trump-speech-warsaw-poland-transcript/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1232cc38d7146d/6988d4a14ee2626c3b30e084/170706_donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeline Farber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a1232cc38d7146d/6988d4a14ee2626c3b30e084/170706_donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"170706_Donald Trump Warsaw","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Evan Vucci—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4846780/read-donald-trump-speech-warsaw-poland-transcript/","name":"Read Donald Trump’s Remarks at the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Poland"}}]}] ```