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donald trump Plans for an Arc de Triomphe-style monument to be constructed next year to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary were officially unveiled during his term. controversial donor dinner Wednesday at the White House.
The massive construction project will include the construction of arches over a nearby traffic circle Arlington CemeteryTwo huge white eagles are attached at the top of the arch.
If construction plans follow the scale model that Trump held in his hand, a golden angel will be placed at the summit of the monument.
“Every time someone rides over that beautiful bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, they literally say something needs to happen here,” Trump said at a fundraiser for himself. $250 million ballroom In the White House.
“We have versions of it… this is a fake,” he said, waving a scale model of the Ark.
The President claimed that the construction work would be financed with some of the money left over from his White House ballroom renovation.
He claimed that the ballroom had already been “fully financed”.
A White House official said cnn He “came up” with the Trump design and that arch, which Washington Post The report was temporary, should be permanent.
However, Trump’s arch will closely follow a design first shared online by architect Nicolas Leo Charbonneau of Harrison Design, which will be located in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
When Charbonneau unveiled his proposal for the arch, he claimed that “America needs a triumphal arch!”
His sketch resembles the Arc de Triomphe of Paris, which emperor napoleon bonaparte Commemorated the soldiers killed in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Trump claimed that the roundabout was initially planned to be named Memorial Circle in 1902, after a statue of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee was placed on the site.
The president said the statue “would have been fine for me” despite Lee being a highly controversial figure because of his public support for slavery during the Civil War.
Plans for the arch at the intersection were first seen on the President’s desk during an interview with the Finnish Prime Minister, prompting speculation online.
During his second term, Trump has initiated several major construction projects, including adding a ballroom to the White House and the Arch.
chairman Concrete construction over the historic Rose Garden In the White House, which was decorated in the French formal style by the administration of John F. Kennedy. Trump first replaced all the grass with patio tiles It rebranded itself as the “Rose Garden Club”.
He also radically transformed the Oval Office by adding gold medallions, cherubs, eagles, and Rococo-style mirrors. This style mimics the decor seen at his Mar-a-Lago mansion and Trump Tower.
Vice President JD Vance He shared that his 5-year-old son likes the new look of the office.
Vance said, “His favorite color is gold. And whenever he walks into the Oval Office, he’s overwhelmed by it because it has a bright, vibrant feel to it.”
One of Trump’s proposed projects would involve turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, although he acknowledged that the US would first have to “occupy” and “own” the strip.
after sharing a AI-generated video of yourself And as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lay by a pool in Gaza wearing swimming shorts, Trump said the territory could host “the people of the world.”
The status of those plans that Hamas and Israel officially have is now unknown. committed to a ceasefire,
The president’s construction projects have been sharply criticized by Democrats, who have pointed to the fact that he has continued to move forward with the plans despite the government shutdown.
California Governor Gavin Newsom A widely shared post on Twitter branded the president “Marie Antoinette” for ignoring the shutdown.
“Trump Says ‘Marie Antoinette’, ‘No Health Care for You Peasants, But a Ballroom for the Queen!’ Newsom wrote in an ex post that mimics Trump’s social media style.