Overview

• AFP journalists photographed a triumphal arch mock-up on the Resolute Desk during President Trump’s October 9 Oval Office meeting with Finland’s President Alexander Stubb.
• A site map on the desk placed the structure on a traffic circle near Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial.
• A larger model showed a winged golden angel holding a torch and two white eagles, in a design that resembles Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
• The model matches imagery shared on the ‘Donald Trump for President’ Facebook page in September, which suggested a tie to the United States’ 250th anniversary in 2026.
• The White House has not confirmed any project, and coverage notes a similar sketch by Harrison Design employee Nicolas Leo Charbonneau with no known commission as Trump pursues classical-themed renovations and a new ballroom.