Trump: costs of embassy Jerusalem down sharply

washington - President Donald Trump says he has rejected a proposal to pay a billion dollars (about 825 million euros) for the construction of a new US embassy in Jerusalem. He states that the United States will spend less than half a million dollars on the diplomatic mission.

Trump said at a press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel that he had almost signed the proposal. 'I already wrote my name half when I saw the amount,' he said. The president then asked the ambassador of his country in Israel for clarification. The diplomat would have assured him that the costs could be drastically reduced by renovating an existing American building in the city.

Trump finally gave permission to spend 300,000 to 400,000 dollars. 'It is going to be beautiful and possibly somewhat temporary,' said the president, who last year decided to move the embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 'This is the way the government works. They were going to spend a billion and we're going to spend much less than half a million now. '

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