ISRAEL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump spent roughly 10 minutes of an hourlong speech Thursday [5-10-18] night in Indiana telling the story of how he saved nearly $999,800,000 on controversial plans to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — a claim he has made before in the months leading up to the facility’s opening on Monday [5-14-18]. The administration did announce plans in February to designate a US consular facility in Jerusalem as the US Embassy but the process of building a new permanent embassy in the city will take years. After opening the embassy next week, the US will build out additional office space at the consular facility by the end of 2019. But that space, too, will be temporary as the US works to identify a site and build a permanent embassy in Jerusalem…But Trump once again failed to mention that distinction Thursday while telling the crowd that the US would spend only ‘$200,000 to $300,000’ on the new embassy versus a $1 billion proposal he said he was initially presented with.”
-Zachary Cohen, “Trump claims he saved almost $999,800,000 on US embassy in Jerusalem,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 12, 2018 9:00 am