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.
As he said he wanted, you mean.
Anyway, let’s not. Let’s not do that. Let’s not add yet more oversized vulgar tat to DC just because Trump wants to.
American taxpayers will help fund the construction of the arch, according to the spending plan for the National Endowment for the Humanities released by the administration earlier this week.
Don’t want to.
The president said he wants the arch to be the “biggest one of all” in the world. The proposed site is situated along a flight path for nearby Reagan National Airport, raising questions about it might affect planes’ approach.
Or, as the peasants say, about how it might affect planes’ approach.
Anyway, how about no. Enough already. He’s trashed the Kennedy Center and the Rose Garden and the East Wing of the White House; basta.
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