US President Donald Trump today said that he may travel to Israel for the inauguration of the new American embassy in Jerusalem.
"I may go (to Jerusalem).. very proud of it. Jerusalem has been a subject that's been promised for many years, as you know, the embassy in Jerusalem. It's been promised for many, many years by presidents. They all made campaign promises, and they never had the courage to carry it out. I carried it out," Trump told reporters at a joint White House news conference with the visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
He said, "It's getting ready to open, and I do want to tell that story though, because there are a couple of people that got to see it, but others, where literally, they were going to spend a billion dollars, and we're spending a tiny, tiny fraction of that, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars instead. And it will be very nice. Maybe it'll be nicer than a billion-dollar building."
"I said, 'What are you talking about, USD1 billion?' You know, most embassies are like a single story. And they said, 'Yes, sir. It's USD1 billion'. And I had my name half-signed, then I noticed the figure, and I just didn't -- I never got to the word 'Trump". I had "Donald" signed, but I never got to the word "Trump."
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