{"id":271,"date":"2026-07-10T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usabusinesschronicle.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:39:06","slug":"trumps-flimsy-argument-for-his-triumphal-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usabusinesschronicle.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Flimsy Argument for his \u201cTriumphal Arch\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaking at Yale in 1962, John F. Kennedy said, \u201cFor the greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie\u2014deliberate, contrived, and dishonest but the myth\u2014persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.\u201d President Donald Trump is the master of the myth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Trump\u202fwants to build a towering \u201cTriumphal Arch\u201d\u202fat Memorial Circle in Washington near the Lincoln Memorial and across the Potomac River from Arlington National Cemetery. He has quadrupled the size of the arch from his original proposal. It is known as the \u201cArc de Trump\u201d since, when asked whom the arch would honor, he said, \u201cMe.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has argued that his plan fulfills a century-old congressional vision for the site.\u202fNot so, Trump has distorted and overreached what Congress did in 1925, just as he overreached what Congress did in 1977 when he issued his executive order imposing draconian tariffs around the world. As Chief Justice John Roberts stressed in the tariff case, \u201ca reasonable interpreter would [not] expect\u201d Congress to \u201cpawn\u201d such a \u201cbig-time policy call\u2026 off to another branch.\u201d\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

The century-old discussions and plans for the circle \u201care now being used as some sort of justification for the monumental arch\u2026 But historic renderings and descriptions show clearly how materially different they are,\u201d said Priya Jain, who chairs the historical preservation committee at the Society of Architectural Historians, last month at a meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two eagles and a winged angel are perched atop the arch, with the phrases \u201cOne Nation Under God\u201d and \u201cLiberty and Justice For All\u201d sitting above.\u00a0 After Trump unveiled his plan in April 2025, the renowned architecture critic Paul Goldberger described the 250-foot \u201cTriumphal Arch\u201d as a monument to excess rather than true classical dignity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Circle is a traffic island, and it has never been built on, since it is right in the middle of the sight line connecting the Lincoln Memorial with Arlington National Cemetery, established in 1864 on land taken from Robert E. Lee and used to bury the Union war dead. There is an important metaphorical connection between the Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial that the arch would block in both directions. Sacrilege? Neither Trump nor his MAGA base seems to like what the Lincoln Memorial represents. Too much: Marian Anderson singing and Martin Luther King dreaming in a way they fear might come true.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, as Goldberger points out, \u201che is now desecrating \u2026the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in bright blue. It will end up looking more like a hotel swimming pool than an element in a serene and monumental civic composition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his critique, published in Air Mail<\/em>, Goldberger noted that \u201cTrump\u2019s idea of classicism is not dignity and order but over-the-top gaudiness and excess\u2014not Jeffersonian decorum but super-sized Las Vegas vulgarity. Trump does not join movements; he hijacks them and remakes them in his own image.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

The plan is so bizarre that Catesby Leigh, an art and architecture critic, and a co-founder of the National Civic Art Society, America\u2019s foremost organization advocating for beautiful and inspiring monuments, memorials, and public architecture,which has been pushing for more traditional architecture in the nation\u2019s capital,\u00a0 has reportedly now disassociated himself from the project, suggesting that it is no longer to his liking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I myself, writing in these pages, looked at the plans and was horrified, calling the arch \u201ca monstrosity in the making\u201d and an \u201cexcrescence on the landscape.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople pass that circle, they say, \u2018Why isn\u2019t something built here?\u201d Trump said in the Oval Office in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u202fWhat people? Can you imagine some Trump toady in the Situation Room remarking, amid plans to bomb, saying to the King, \u201cI just passed the circle; why isn\u2019t something built here?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lawmakers and local leaders spent decades in the 19th century debating what to build at the western end of the National Mall. A Senate commission in 1902 issued a report calling for a new bridge over the Potomac River\u2014a proposal that would eventually become the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The plan Congress authorized in 1925 called for a new bridge spanning the Potomac River and a pair of columns at its western side, near where Memorial Circle is today. The bridge was built, but the columns never were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis large space directly contradicts the original vision,\u201d Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is helping oversee the project, told a federal commission reviewing the proposed arch designs in April.\u202fAn \u201coriginal vision\u201d is invariably unfilled space. But does the \u201coriginal vision\u201d comprehend an arch honoring Donald Trump? He wasn\u2019t even born in 1925. Dictators, from Mussolini and Porfirio D\u00edaz in Mexico to Adolf Hitler, have relished monuments honoring themselves. We don\u2019t do that here, at least not until now. Isn\u2019t it enough to be president and let future generations build the monuments? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s captive Justice Department has also piled on,\u202frepeatedly arguing\u202fthat Congress\u2019s past support for columns gives it authority to build a structure. Can a restaurant plausibly claim that because I select a dish from Column A, they can serve me a dish from Column B because it appears in a column?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither the underlying Congressional authorization to build the columns\u2014nor the discretion to modify column design\u2014has expired,\u201d Trump administration lawyers wrote in a crabbed court filing last month.\u202fNeither apparently has Trump\u2019s claim that the 2020 election was fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The National Capital Planning Commission, a federal agency reviewing the project, is set to review and potentially approve the administration\u2019s arch plans.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 166-foot-tall columns that Congress approved 100 years ago, which Trump and his deputies cite to press their case, are a far cry from the 250-foot-tall monument they plan to construct, which would more dramatically alter pedestrians\u2019 views and reshape the historic skyline near the Lincoln Memorial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump cannot restrain himself from prevarication. When asked who was paying for upending the busy walkway in the West Colonnade, which connected the White House residence to the Oval Office, and replacing it with polished black African granite carved in Italy, he responded, \u201cI am.\u201d In fact, it is being funded out of money appropriated for guardrail protections in the National Parks. 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