Trump mulling over yet another big architectural addition to Washington [View all]
President Donald Trump appears ready to leave yet another mark on the nation’s capital with a triumphal arch that could rival the Lincoln Memorial in scale.
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AFP White House Correspondent Danny Kemp shared a photo of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office with a satellite map of D.C. spread across it, complete with a miniature model of the Lincoln Memorial—and, across the water, a model of an arch that does not yet exist.
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The arch, which is topped by a winged golden angel, appears to be planned for the traffic circle at the terminus of the Arlington Memorial Bridge—echoing Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, which was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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In his second term, the commander-in-chief has devoted himself to renovating the White House—mostly by covering it in gold, but also by paving over the historic Rose Garden and building a $200 million ballroom larger than the White House itself.
(Photos of renderings of both the ballroom and the arch are at the link. The ballroom is so huge that it makes the WH look tiny.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/trump-plotting-even-bigger-architectural-project-for-d-c/ar-AA1ObfUL
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