Trump officials unveil designs for president's controversial 250-foot arch
Source: Washington Post
The Trump administration on Friday unveiled new renderings for President Donald Trump's planned 250-foot triumphal arch, his most significant effort to remake Washington's skyline, as officials begin the process of seeking formal approval for the controversial project.
The renderings prepared by Harrison Design feature a golden inscription reading "One Nation Under God" on the arch, which is topped with a winged Lady Liberty statue and flanked at its base by statues of four golden lions. The project is slated for Memorial Circle, a traffic roundabout near Arlington National Cemetery, which city planners have eyed for more than a century as the site of a potential monument.
The project is intended to commemorate the United States' 250th anniversary. Built to Trump's specifications, it would transform a small plot of land between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery into a dominant new monument. Architects and historic preservationists have warned that the planned arch, which would be more than twice the size of the roughly 100-foot Lincoln Memorial and tower over the nearby cemetery, would distort the intent of the existing memorials and obstruct pedestrians' views.
The renderings were filed Friday by the Interior Department with the Commission of Fine Arts, a panel of advisers on the city's architectural matters that Trump has stocked with allies. The commission is set to review the White House's proposal at a meeting Thursday.

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underpants
(196,670 posts)magicarpet
(18,629 posts).... where the Orange Pedo Shitler can diddle little girls as he teaches them how to become compliant and useful women ?
Whip-poor-will
(313 posts)Just say no
highplainsdem
(62,394 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,986 posts)Copying Hitler's penchant for vanity architecture.
https://www.magellantv.com/articles/nazi-architecture-hitlers-grandiose-plans-for-imperial-berlin
efhmc
(16,735 posts)pat_k
(13,451 posts)...them down.
I believe the courts currently have this stopped. No arch without Congressional approval.
flashman13
(2,441 posts)The only things missing are the swastikas.
City Lights
(25,881 posts)I am sick to death of his crap.
Biophilic
(6,571 posts)The fact that it will trivialize everything around it including Arlington Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial makes it 100% wrong. The fact that its fascistic and ugly as hell is secondary.
CrispyQ
(40,990 posts)I'm surprised he doesn't dress her like a Victoria's Secret angel.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,281 posts)Their outstretched wings look a bit better than the hunched ones previously proposed, which had a bit of a vulture look to them.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-victory-arch-dc-renderings-b2955536.html
Eagles make sense for an American monument; but why lions? They are, ironically, the symbol of Iran, and also the British monarchy - you know, the thing the USA was founded to get away from (the name "Independence Arch" has been used, but maybe they want that to be ironic. For that matter, what's the "triumph" for the "triumphal arch"? It feels like Caligula throwing himself a Roman triumph for capturing seashells from Neptune).
And since when was "Lady Liberty" winged?
greatauntoftriplets
(179,105 posts)Solly Mack
(96,994 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,889 posts)VMA131Marine
(5,280 posts)Doesnt that mean Arc de Triomphe in French 🇫🇷?
I mean seriously, does Trump ever have any original ideas?
The original; look how similar Trumps Arch is.

Bayard
(29,828 posts)"Symbolizes French patriotism, serving as a reminder of their military victories and those who fought and died for France." It didn't stand for any one person, and it did not have Napleon's name on it. Although, his hearse passed under it.......
trump's version is the most selfish, and dull-witted, thing on Earth when Americans can't buy food, gasoline, pay for utilities, rent, or healthcare.
Jimi du Ranty
(53 posts)pat_k
(13,451 posts)If the Republicans in Congress rubber stamps this monstrosity, they just add weight to the trump anchor pulling them down.
lpbk2713
(43,280 posts)Another self aggrandizement project.
He throws the people's money around like it was Monopoly money.
Talitha
(8,047 posts)I'd rather have a memorial to the ICE victims.
ProudMNDemocrat
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Senator Gracchus: "He enters Rome like a conquering hero! What has he conquered?"
Donnie wants a triumphant arch to welcome him as if he were a conquering hero. NOT!!!
Kid Berwyn
(24,540 posts)When the monumental day comes, the traitor should be buried at the bottom of a cess pit. An enormous urinary walkway would encircle above from which visitors from across the nation and around the world can urinate wannabe emperor chucklenuts.
The Wizard
(13,763 posts)no swastika?