Trump's arch gets overwhelmingly negative public feedback but appears poised to move forward

[orangecrush]

President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch project received overwhelmingly negative feedback from preservationist groups and members of the public as plans for the massive structure were presented on Thursday to a key committee for the first time.

But the Commission of Fine Arts still appears poised to approve the project and took a preliminary vote to move ahead with the process. The independent federal agency, which has been stacked with Trump loyalists, advises the president and Congress on design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings.

Trump has been deeply involved in the project to build an arch as he takes significant steps to impose his style and taste on the nation’s capital during his second term. He has already added his name to the Kennedy Center and the US Institute of Peace and is overseeing a major ballroom addition to the White House complex.

The president has said he wants it to be the biggest arch in the world, modeled after Paris’ Arc de Triomphe — but larger. It would be the equivalent of a 16- to 20-story building, taller than the White House, the Lincoln Memorial and the US Capitol building. The project is already facing a legal challenge from a Vietnam War veterans’ group related to its scale and obstruction of the view of the Arlington National Cemetery.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/politics/trump-arch-feedback-commission

[lame54]

1. 25 stories high

[kairos12]

2. Are these going to be

MacDonald's Arches? Probably.

[Totally Tunsie]

3. It seems fitting...

The biggest arch in the world
for the biggest ass in the world.

[Chasstev365]

4. Hang a banner across it that says, "Welcome to Berlin 1940"

[Deuxcents]

5. Put his damn arches at the entrance to his resort Mara largo..that's his property and not ruin ours

[Cheezoholic]

6. Gonna be a big party when the next administration razes this coming eyesore. If he can build it, we can blow it up n/t

[luv2fly]

14. I share the sentiment but it won't happen

Not any time soon at least... too political I suspect and we'll be entering a phase of "letting the past be" as people seek to "mend fences."

[sop]

7. How is it possible one crazy old man has taken control of this country, and no one can do anything to stop him?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

20. ..and not only does GOP not stop him, they cater to his insane ego

By naming stuff after him and awarding him gold doo-dads.

[WizumbODaSage]

8. Not a Thing Will Stop It!

Here we were being regaled by MAGA CONpiracists for 15 years that America was RULED by Obama for THREE FULL TERMS... during this time he was reviled for wearing a brown suit, marrying a man, enacting revenge on Americans of all types... yet all of these Americans stood STRONG... citing heroes like Joan Rivers, Joe Rogan, Alex Jones who BRAVELY spoke the truth in the face of Obama's secret, invisible but intractable hold on power... YET anyone could attack this all powerful secret hegemon online, on tv, podcasts, websites, travel the world spreading oppobrium in the crudest of terms.

At no point in the last 15 months has ANY of these cranks revealed the moment when Obama LOST his omnipotent power ... maybe he hasn't lost it yet as Trump boldly fights like an ancient warrior against this brown crusader of Satan's will!!!

However not ONE obstacle will stand in the way of this MASSIVE tribute to Trump. It will sit in its MEGATONAGE on that mall. A bunker busting thermonuclear warhead will do no more than scorch it. Try to name a preschool after Obama in Kansas and the stonemason would be burned at the stake for raising a hammer to begin to carve the inscription, but every single stone and gold statuary in Trump's monument shall gleam in solemn glory if ten thousand of us sacrificed our very lives to attempt to stop it. THAT is the world we live in.

[EnergizedLib]

9. I mean

We all know this is somebody who pushes on and forces himself on other people even when they say no.

[vapor2]

10. Personally I can't wait til the day it is demolished

[Trueblue1968]

11. Well i hope for the next years, taggers destroy it.

And then I hope it is demolished. Oh wait .... I hope he goes away before it is started.


Goes away like in going away to meet his maker, Mr. Satan.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. 1,000 public comments.

“100 percent negative.”

Not one in favor.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

21. Long after he shuffles off, we'll be looking at stuff with gis name on it

That's his fervant hope

[Kid Berwyn]

22. True and happy thoughts.

Traitor visited Mount Vernon and asked, “Why isn’t Washington’s name everywhere?”

Tragic for the nation and planet, with all his brains, briefers and miseducation, that constitutes his idea of a legacy.

So, instead of a common triumphal arch, let’s give him what he thinks he deserves…

Trump Mausoleum Proposed by Andres Serrano for US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220778958

[fujiyamasan]

13. I don't care if it costs as much to tear it down as it did to build

If this nation decides to keep monuments constructed by this madman, it deserves ass holes like him to rule it. Seriously, fuck his ego projects.

Every democrat should pledge to tear these monstrosities down.

[dalton99a]

19. +1

[2MuchNoise]

15. When it's all over, it will be the perfect place to string him up.

[fujiyamasan]

16. Somehow I can't help but think of Mussolini and the other fascists

[struggle4progress]

17. "Trump Memorial Gallows"

[BannonsLiver]

18. I'm hoping it doesn't get built.

Still 2 obstacles. The FAA and according to the article, local DC govt. which I’m guessing would not be a friendly environment for him. Between those things and any other obstacles that might come up there is an outside chance all the red tape could push this back to the point where it can’t be done and the next president (which we hope is a Democrat) cancels the project.

[allegorical oracle]

23. Wondering if he allows any soil experts to examine whether that round-about

can handle such a large structure. According to Wikipedia, it's only 13 feet above sea level. Historically, that whole area has been a boggy swamp.