President Trump told a story on Friday that he seemed to think would highlight his fiscal responsibility and knack for negotiation. [Parsing Trump’s story about saving more than $999 million on building an embassy in Jerusalem]“I had my name half-signed,” he said. But I said, “David, let's not go from $1 billion to a hundred-fifty-thousand; let's go to three-, four-hundred-thousand.” And that's what we did. They were going to spend $1 billion, and we're going to spend much less than a-half-a-million. [New U.S. Embassy — which Trump mocked on Twitter as a bad deal — opens in London without him]

Source: Washington Post April 27, 2018 20:15 UTC