Overview
- President Donald Trump told Politico he expects work on a Triumphal Arch to begin “sometime in the next two months.”
- Trump has described the monument as modeled on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe and proposed for the area near Arlington Memorial Bridge across from the Lincoln Memorial.
- The White House has not provided specifics on cost, who would pay, the exact site, required permits or which agencies have approved the project.
- Previous reporting from Fox News said private donors could bankroll the monument, a claim not confirmed by the White House.
- The arch is part of Trump’s broader 250th‑anniversary push, and critics are questioning costs, aesthetics and whether the executive branch can advance such a project without broader approval.