Trump was heavily influenced by the views of his closest advisers, all of whom were closely aligned with the far right in Israel and were part of the related segment of the American Jewish community.43 He took a fused approach in which he both drew on that influence and characteristically acted on his own impulses. That is the Trump trademark, and it colored how he approached a U.S. policy that was shaped by presidents and Congresses decades before him. Rather than change the policy, he threw all caution to the wind and acted on it.
