President Trump has revealed designs for a monumental arch—styled after Paris’s Arc de Triomphe—to be built in Washington, D.C., as part of the upcoming 250th anniversary of American independence.
At a donor dinner in the White House, Trump displayed three scaled models of the proposed structure. He expressed a preference for the largest version, which would stand opposite the Lincoln Memorial, facing the Potomac River. The arch’s design includes a golden Lady Liberty figure, flanked by eagles.
Although the cost and precise timeline remain uncertain, Trump indicated that surplus funds from his planned $200 million White House ballroom project could be redirected toward the arch. The monument is expected to be privately funded at this stage.
If constructed, the arch would mark the largest architectural addition to the National Mall area in decades, and it would cement Trump’s ongoing push to reshape Washington’s aesthetic with classical and symbolically grand structures.