The entrepreneurial vein of the former media tycoon, and now US President Donald Trump was stronger than political politezov. To solve the problem of seized Russian diplomatic property in the US, he suggested simply: to let the property with a hammer, and the proceeds to send to the American treasury. On the Trump initiative, The Washington Post was whispered in the White House. According to the source, shortly after the inauguration in January of this year, the new president wanted to abolish anti-Russian sanctions and amicably resolve the issue with the diplomatic capacity. However, the secret services began actively to convince him that buildings and land in the states of New York and Maryland Moscow used for espionage. In particular, representatives of the FBI on the map showed Trump how closely the dachas of Russian diplomats are located to the secret military and intelligence facilities of the United States. "These are the platforms from which the Russians illegally follow us," the agents of the president. And convinced. Trump changed his mind about returning real estate to Russia. but leave the buildings to hang out without the owner and without benefit the diligent businessman too could not. He asked his administration to think whether it is possible to sell Russian property and send money to the state budget. The newspaper does not say that it was advisers. The arrest of Russian diplomats in New York and Maryland imposed in the last days of the stay in power the predecessor of Trump Barack Obama. At the same time, 35 embassy workers were expelled from the USA to Russia. In Moscow, they said that Washington violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. , as well as a bilateral agreement between the USSR and the USA of 1979. The Russian authorities waited more than half a year, while Trump will understand in intricacies of the American policy and will return to Russia the real estate.

However, there were no positive changes, so from September 1, 2017. the number of American diplomats in the Russian Federation was reduced to 455 people, the entrance to the embassy dacha in Serebryany Bor was closed and the lease of storage facilities in the south of the capital was denied.

In response, the United States closed the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, as well as consular facilities in New York and Washington. Perhaps Trump is now considering how to break the jackpot and from them.