In his presidential campaign, Donald Trump announced that he would move the US embassy to Jerusalem. As president, he said in an interview in February 2017 to the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom that he was studying the issue.[22] While Trump decided in May not to move the embassy to Jerusalem "for now," to avoid provoking the Palestinians,[23] on 6 December 2017 he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and has begun the process of moving the embassy to the city.