Donald Trump's next vanity project in Washington will sooner or later come to fruition.
President said Politico Wednesday that he expects construction to mark the start of his much-teased “Arc de Triomphe(yes, “arc”) over the next two months.
“It hasn't started yet. It will start sometime in the next two months. It's going to be great. Everyone loves it,” Trump said. “They love the ballroom too. But they love the Arc de Triomphe.”
“Trump ArchAccording to the president, it will be built next to the Arlington Bridge, opposite the Lincoln Memorial. It will be modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, a historical monument dedicated to the memory of those who fought and died for France during the country's Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
Earlier this month, Trump said his early plot models were so memorable that his former speechwriter Vince Haley cried in their beauty.
“Vince came in one day and his eyes filled with tears. He couldn't believe how beautiful it was. He saw it and wanted to do it,” the president said at a White House Christmas reception.
The president's election campaign is the latest in a string of high-profile projects he has unveiled ahead of the country's 250th anniversary. He's already hard at work on the 90,000-square-foot ballroom, the construction of which apparently required the complete demolition of the East Wing of the White House, despite Trump promising months earlier that the project would be “near but not touching” the presidential mansion.
Trump also renovated Jackie Kennedy's famous Rose Garden, mowing down the flowers to literally pave paradise; gutted Lincoln's bathroom from Lyndon B. Johnson's bathroom. favorite office V marble eyesore; and replaced the historic Palm Room's lush green tones and tall ferns with white paint and framed photographs of plants.
Meanwhile, his administration is pursuing its own demolition, reportedly planning destroy about 13 historical buildings on the site of the former St. Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital to expand Department of Homeland Security facilities.
