Cliff Sims

And the question with any president is, any politician is, what kind of moral courage do you have?

Because you're inevitably gonna be confronted with a decision that's gonna cost you something.

And this is really the heart of the question you're getting at is, are you willing to do something that's gonna cost you something if it's the right thing to do?

One of the early decisions that we had to make in the White House was, are we gonna move the U.S.

Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?

Every president since Ronald Reagan had promised to do it.

We're gonna move the U.S.

Embassy to Jerusalem.

We're gonna acknowledge the fact that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel.

And we're gonna move our embassy there as a show of support for the Israelis and for that fact.

And every single president prior to Trump reversed course and didn't do it, both Republican and Democrat.

And I know why.

Because I saw the same thing.

I was confronted with the same briefing that all of those other presidents got.

You make this decision and it's gonna be mass chaos in the Middle East.

People are going to lose their minds.

Any hope for peace and stability in this region is gonna be gone

by you doing that.

And every president was confronted with this conundrum.

Do I do what I said I was gonna do?