Trump officials unveil designs for president's controversial 250-foot arch

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post


The Trump administration on Friday unveiled new renderings for President Donald Trump's planned 250-foot triumphal arch, his most significant effort to remake Washington's skyline, as officials begin the process of seeking formal approval for the controversial project.

The renderings prepared by Harrison Design feature a golden inscription reading "One Nation Under God" on the arch, which is topped with a winged Lady Liberty statue and flanked at its base by statues of four golden lions. The project is slated for Memorial Circle, a traffic roundabout near Arlington National Cemetery, which city planners have eyed for more than a century as the site of a potential monument.

The project is intended to commemorate the United States' 250th anniversary. Built to Trump's specifications, it would transform a small plot of land between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery into a dominant new monument. Architects and historic preservationists have warned that the planned arch, which would be more than twice the size of the roughly 100-foot Lincoln Memorial and tower over the nearby cemetery, would distort the intent of the existing memorials and obstruct pedestrians' views.

The renderings were filed Friday by the Interior Department with the Commission of Fine Arts, a panel of advisers on the city's architectural matters that Trump has stocked with allies. The commission is set to review the White House's proposal at a meeting Thursday.



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Not The Onion...

[underpants]

1. What triumph? His bank account?

[magicarpet]

2. Are there bedrooms inside those towers,...

.... where the Orange Pedo Shitler can diddle little girls as he teaches them how to become compliant and useful women ?

[Whip-poor-will]

3. No

Just say no

[highplainsdem]

4. Hideous. Especially at that scale.

[Blue_Roses]

28. Exactly.

Scale is way off, that and it's ugly.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. More fascist plans for making Donnie emperor...

Copying Hitler's penchant for vanity architecture.

https://www.magellantv.com/articles/nazi-architecture-hitlers-grandiose-plans-for-imperial-berlin

[efhmc]

6. Is there any way actual regular citizen can stop this?

[pat_k]

18. Do everything you can to make sure Republicans in Congress recognize this arch would add weight to the anchor pulling ..

...them down.

I believe the courts currently have this stopped. No arch without Congressional approval.

[flashman13]

7. A seriously gaudy, ugly piece of shit. The kind of monstrosity only a tin pot dictator could love.

The only things missing are the swastikas.

[City Lights]

8. His priorities really suck.

I am sick to death of his crap.

[Biophilic]

9. This so called triumphal arch is just an all out bad and wrong decision.

The fact that it will trivialize everything around it including Arlington Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial makes it 100% wrong. The fact that it’s fascistic and ugly as hell is secondary.

[CrispyQ]

10. Oh look, The Statue of Liberty has angel wings. And is there a second one on the other side?

I'm surprised he doesn't dress her like a Victoria's Secret angel.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. The second object on top is apparently one of a pair of eagles

Their outstretched wings look a bit better than the hunched ones previously proposed, which had a bit of a vulture look to them.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-victory-arch-dc-renderings-b2955536.html

Eagles make sense for an American monument; but why lions? They are, ironically, the symbol of Iran, and also the British monarchy - you know, the thing the USA was founded to get away from (the name "Independence Arch" has been used, but maybe they want that to be ironic. For that matter, what's the "triumph" for the "triumphal arch"? It feels like Caligula throwing himself a Roman triumph for capturing seashells from Neptune).

And since when was "Lady Liberty" winged?

[Blue_Roses]

29. I was wondering about

the lions too. Dominance? The size of it definitely brings out his over-inflated ego.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. I think I'm going to lose my lunch.

[Solly Mack]

12. ...

&t=2s

[twodogsbarking]

13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs agreed to pay for it.Wait for it.

[VMA131Marine]

14. Triumphal Arch?

Doesn’t that mean “Arc de Triomphe” in French 🇫🇷?

I mean seriously, does Trump ever have any original ideas?

The original; look how similar Trump’s Arch is.

[Bayard]

15. The Arc de Triomphe,

"Symbolizes French patriotism, serving as a reminder of their military victories and those who fought and died for France." It didn't stand for any one person, and it did not have Napleon's name on it. Although, his hearse passed under it.......

trump's version is the most selfish, and dull-witted, thing on Earth when Americans can't buy food, gasoline, pay for utilities, rent, or healthcare.

[Jimi du Ranty]

16. Arc de Pedo

[pat_k]

17. What a waste. If built, it's just one more thing to demolish when he's gone.

If the Republicans in Congress rubber stamps this monstrosity, they just add weight to the trump anchor pulling them down.

[lpbk2713]

19. ... while millions are being cut from Medicaid.

Another self aggrandizement project.

He throws the people's money around like it was Monopoly money.

[Talitha]

20. An imitation. Tacky even if it was downscaled to 20'.

I'd rather have a memorial to the ICE victims.

[jeffreyi]

21. WTF

[ProudMNDemocrat]

23. The scene in GLADIATOR when Commodus reenters Rome.

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Senator Gracchus: "He enters Rome like a conquering hero! What has he conquered?"

Donnie wants a triumphant arch to welcome him as if he were a conquering hero. NOT!!!

&t=1s

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Commode US

When the monumental day comes, the traitor should be buried at the bottom of a cess pit. An enormous urinary walkway would encircle above from which visitors from across the nation and around the world can urinate wannabe emperor chucklenuts.

[The Wizard]

25. What,

no swastika?

[highplainsdem]

26. Ron Filipkowski: That's an abomination.

That’s an abomination.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T22:42:42.630Z

[travelingthrulife]

27. Be adults and just say "No".

Be grown-ups and say "NO" to the Orange Toddler.

[sakabatou]

30. *pukes*

[catsudon]

31. The Reich Capital

so instead of hitler building his own mega buildings in berlin,
we got trump here fulfilling what hiler couldn't do.

i mean we know about the ball room already, and he wanted WWE in front of the white house, so he's probably going to build a roman colosseum.