Duda thanks Trump for ‘fighting fake news’

President Andrzej Duda thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump for fighting fake news. “President Trump just stressed again the power of fake news. Thank you. We must continue to fight that phenomenon. Poland experiences fake news power first hand. Many European and even US officials form their opinions of PL based on relentless flow of fake news,” Duda said on his Twitter account. This was a response to Trump’s self-organized “fake news award” competition where he picked 11 stories, the vast majority of them Trump-related, that he called “fake.” One of them was about Duda's wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, which said that she did not shake hands with Trump during his visit to Warsaw last summer. In fact, she briefly avoided Trump's outstretched hand as she reached out to shake the hand of US first lady Melania Trump, but she did shake Trump's hand afterward.