'I may go' to Jerusalem embassy opening, Trump says

US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he might travel to Israel for the opening of a new US embassy there, located in Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post reported. “It’s going to be beautiful and it could be somewhat temporary,” he said. CBN's Ben Kennedy asked President Trump during a joint press conference with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday if he and members of his family planned to fly out for the historic opening. "The embassy in Jerusalem has been promised for many, many years by presidents," Trump said in Friday's press conference. “I had my name half-signed and I noticed the figure and I never got to the word ‘Trump.”’

The president said he called the ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and asked about the expenditure. 'We might have to build dozens of embassies, and we would need new land ready for that purpose.' And Israel's construction minister said Friday that he is forming a task force to find appropriate sites for many more. So that's what it is," Trump said. Trump said he then told the ambassador that they should not go from $1 billion to $150,000. 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.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis asks Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă to resign. Iohannis says Dăncilă did not consult him before endorsing a plan to move Romania's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.