President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering taking a trip to Israel for the opening of America's embassy in Jerusalem.

'I may go. It's getting ready to open,' he said during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House.

The rebooted U.S. diplomatic mission will move on May 14 from its current home in Tel Aviv, making a political statement about America's commitment to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital city.

And the shift may be just the first in a series of diplomatic relocations, resulting in a new diplomatic zone that one Israeli minister is considering calling 'Trump Town.'

President Donald Trump said Friday that he still might come to Jerusalem for the opening of America's relocated embassy on May 14

Moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (pictured) is controversial but three other nations are already publicly saying they could follow suit

The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem will be the site – for now – of America's rebooted diplomatic mission in Israel

Trump said in a geopolitically earth-shaking December announcement that the embassy would soon relocate to Jerusalem, sparking clashes between Jews and Palestinians that left two protesters dead near the Gaza border fence.

More recently seven were left dead last month after Palestinian protesters battled with Israeli soldiers in response to Trump's plans.

Israeli news outlets including Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post have reported in the past 24 hours that Trump wouldn't attend the May unveiling, and that he would be represented by his daughter Ivanka, her husband Jared Kushner and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Several members of both houses of Congress are also expected to make the trip.

May 14 will mark Israel's 70th Independence Day.

Trump also told a story on Friday about budgeting for the new embassy project, claiming he pared a $1 billion State Department request down to a maximum of $400,000 by deciding to repurpose an existing building and real estate already owned by the U.S.

The consulate is a sprawling complex that includes part of a former hotel, providing what Trump says is enough room to function as an embassy without breaking new ground

Palestinian protesters burned posters of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest in December after the president said the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

'The papers were put before me to sign an application for more than $1 billion to build an embassy. I said, "What are you talking about, $1 billion?"' he recalled. 'You know, most embassies are, like, a single story.'

'I had my name half signed, then I noticed the figure, and I never got to the word "Trump",' the president said.

He credited U.S. Ambassador David Friedman for divising a plan to 'take a corner of the building' and 'fix it up, make it beautiful [and] open our embassy.'

'Instead of in ten years from now, we can open it up in three months.'

Netanyahu's government is preparing for perhaps 'dozens' of new embassies in Jerusalem, resulting a new diplomatic quarter that one official is considering calling 'Trump Town'

The embassy site will be the American consular offices in the Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Trump may have started a wave of diplomatic relocations, turning part of Jerusalem into an 'embassy quarter.'

The Czech Republic, Romania and Honduras have already told the Israeli government that they would like to follow suit.

And Israel's construction minister said Friday that he is forming a task force to find appropriate sites for many more.

Palestinians burned tires as a protest against Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December

'There is an apparent pattern of embassies moving to Jerusalem, and we have to start getting ready now,' Yoav Gallant told the Jerusalem Post.

'We might have to build dozens of embassies, and we would need new land ready for that purpose.'

Gallant said he originally called the concept 'Embassy Town,' but might rename it 'Trump Town' instead.

Transportation Minister Israel Katz said days after Trump's December announcement that he would name a new train station at the Western Wall after Trump as well.