Jared Kushner
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And one thing I've seen is, you know, most political prognosticators are wrong.
Anyone who tells you what's going to happen really has no clue.
And it's not because they're bad or they're not intelligent.
It's because nobody knows.
And at the end of the day, the outcomes in the world are usually driven by the decisions of humans themselves.
And if you're able to come together, form relationships, listen to each other, you can do that.
And one of the great examples that I speak about in the book is with North Korea.
Whereas if you remember in 2017, it was very intense.
When President Obama was leaving office, he told President Trump that the single biggest fear that he had, and this is a time when the world was a mess.
You had
The Middle East was on fire.
ISIS was beheading journalists and killing Christians.
They had to caliphate the size of Ohio.
Libya was destabilized.
Yemen was destabilized.
Syria was in a civil war where 500,000 people were killed.
Iran was on a glide path to a nuclear weapon.
Yet the single biggest fear he had was North Korea.
And then it got compounded by the fact that we get into office and President Trump brings his generals around and he's learning how to interact with all the generals and says, okay, what are my options?
And they said, calm down.