五輪開催、日本の判断尊重　施設整備で「素晴らしい仕事」―米大統領

　【ワシントン時事】トランプ米大統領は１９日、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大を踏まえた東京五輪開催の可否について「安倍晋三首相にとって大きな決断になる。彼がどんな決定を下すか分からないが、われわれはそれに従う」と述べ、日本政府の判断を尊重する考えを示した。ホワイトハウスで開いた記者会見で語った。
　トランプ氏は、先進７カ国（Ｇ７）首脳による先のテレビ会議で五輪開催も議題に上ったと指摘。「どうするか決めていないと（安倍氏は）話している」と説明した。
　また、過去の五輪の施設整備で「当初予定の５倍のコストがかかったり（完成が）間に合わなかったり、悲惨なことが数多くあったが、日本は正反対だ」と強調。「厳しい状況だが、彼らは本当に素晴らしい仕事をしている」と述べ、日本側の取り組みを高く評価した。（2020/03/20-06:13）

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday showed his readiness to follow a decision to be made by the Japanese government on the fate of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics amid the global spread of the novel coronavirus.
   At a press conference at the White House, Trumps said that the leaders of the Group of Seven major industrial nations, including himself and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, discussed the Tokyo Games in their emergency videoconference held on Monday.
   "We don't know what his (Abe's) decision is, but we would live with his decision," Trump said in the press conference. "That's a big decision for him."
   Trump also said that the situation surrounding the Tokyo Games is tough due to the viral outbreak but that Japan has done "an incredible job" in building Olympic venues.
   In past Olympic Games, venues cost five times more than they were supposed to or were not ready on time, Trump said. "Japan has been just the opposite," he said, adding: "They built it beautifully. They built it for what it was supposed to be built for."