Planned "Arc de Trump" would be over twice as high as Lincoln Memorial [View all]
Washington — The Interior Department has submitted renderings of President Trump's proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, showing that the structure would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac River.
The proposal calls for the arch to be roughly 250 feet tall, more than twice as high as the 99-foot tall Lincoln Memorial. It would be the tallest triumphal arch in the world, like the president said he wanted, roughly 30 feet taller than the Plaza de la República in Mexico City.
The proposed building site sits in a traffic circle on the Virginia side of the Potomac, in between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, on land that technically falls within the boundaries of the District of Columbia. The plans show inscriptions reading "One Nation Under God" and "Liberty and Justice For All" would be on either side of the arch. Gold-colored statues of Lady Liberty, flanked by two eagles, would top the structure, with four statues of lions around the base.
The designs were prepared by Harrison Design, an architecture firm in Washington.
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A monument to Trump's insecurity.
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