Overview
- At a donors' event tied to his planned White House ballroom, the president held up multiple scale models of a Paris‑style triumphal arch and, when asked whom it would honor, said it was "for me."
- Media reports describe the design as closely resembling Paris's Arc de Triomphe and locate the potential site on a traffic island across the Arlington Memorial Bridge in line with the Lincoln Memorial.
- Key specifics for the arch remain undisclosed, with no official size, budget, financing details, or construction timeline released by the White House.
- The presentation came as Trump courted private funding for a roughly $250 million ballroom, with guests from major tech firms and Lockheed Martin and a reported $22 million contribution from a YouTube settlement cited for the project.
- Required approvals for the ballroom, including from the Capital Planning Commission, are still pending as Trump touts features such as bullet‑resistant glass and capacity up to 999 people.