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In his first major public speech in Europe, U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that the values of the West are under attack and questioned whether its people have the will to fight for it. Speaking in Warsaw, Poland, the president said “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders?” “While we will always welcome new citizens who share our values and love our people, our borders will always be closed to terrorism and extremism of any kind,” he added to applause from the 5,000-strong crowd. Many Poles are supportive of President Trump's proposed ban on immigration from some Muslim countries, and are fiercely opposed to accepting quotas of refugees from Europe. The president said he had called on Muslim nations to drive out the menace of terrorism. “We must stand united against these shared enemies to strip them of their territory and their funding, and their networks, and any form of ideological support that they may have.” Throughout his speech the passionate crowd – many of whom had reportedly been bussed in from across Poland - repeatedly chanted "Donald Trump" and "USA". Small groups of protestors, many of whom demonstrated against President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, were kept well away from the speech in Warsaw's Krasninski Square. | 
