Overview

• Late Friday, Trump shared a wordless artist’s rendering of a triumphal arch on his social media following attention to Oval Office photos.
• AFP images from an Oct. 9 meeting with Finnish leaders captured models on the Resolute Desk, including a map placing an arch at Memorial Circle across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial.
• A larger desk model showed a gold winged angel holding a torch and two white eagles, a design that echoes Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.
• The look matches a September post on the Donald Trump for President Facebook page and a sketch by Nicolas Leo Charbonneau of Harrison Design, though any formal role for the firm remains unverified.
• Posts linked the concept to America250 in 2026, but there is no announced authorization, timeline, or budget, and coverage notes architectural concerns about the proposed site.