You see every MSM article saying the decision to move went ‘against tradition’ or against U.S. policy. No, U.S. policy since 1995 when Congress voted that the embassy should be moved, has been the capital is Jerusalem. Prior presidents failed to fulfill that obligation.
Via Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump took a shot at his predecessors in a pre-recorded message that aired during the opening ceremony of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Monday.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Trump said to the assembled crowd in Jerusalem. “Today, Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s government. It is the home of the Israeli legislature and the Israeli Supreme Court and Israel’s prime minister and president.”
“Israel is a sovereign nation with the rights like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital,” Trump continued, “yet for many years we failed to acknowledge the obvious, the plain reality that Israel’s capital is Jerusalem.”