Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/31/trump-arch-memorial-circle/

The president is eyeing a plot of land near Memorial Bridge. The art critic who proposed the idea called for a smaller arch or for Trump to pick a new site.

“I’d like it to be the biggest one of all,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “We’re the biggest, most powerful nation.”

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France — which Trump has cited as a model and vowed to exceed by “a lot” — is 164 feet high. A memorial arch in Mexico City, the largest in the world, measures 220 feet.