On Saturday, Nawrocki will also visit the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics facility – the manufacturer of the F-35 fighter jets that Polish pilots are already training on and which are set to join the Polish military fleet.
On Sunday, he will attend Mass and meet with the local Polish diaspora, estimated at over 200,000 people in Texas, and present state honours to some of its members.
The visit has drawn comment from Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who said he only learned of the trip through media statements issued by the president's office.
Tusk expressed hope that Nawrocki would use the occasion to represent Polish interests, but questioned the purpose of the trip if it did not include a meeting with President Donald Trump.
The White House confirmed this week that Trump will not attend the Dallas CPAC event.
"If he doesn't meet Trump, I'm not entirely sure why the president is attending a strictly party event – one where most politicians hold views that are decidedly against Polish interests," Tusk said, adding he would prefer the president to "tread more carefully on international matters".
Presidential aide Marcin Przydacz noted that Trump's absence from the conference had been known from the outset.
He also hit back on X, claiming that Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski himself had sought a prominent role at last year's CPAC – only to "end up seated in the third row, to the side".
Przydacz questioned whether Sikorski's attendance then had also constituted a "party visit", and asked whose interests the foreign minister had been representing.
Last year, then-President Andrzej Duda met Trump at CPAC near Washington.
In May 2025, he spoke at the first CPAC ever held in Poland, near Rzeszów, where Nawrocki – then still a presidential candidate backed by the Law and Justice (PiS) party – also appeared as a special guest.
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Source: PAP