Trump: We'll Start Building the Arch Within 2 Months

President Trump says a monument he's been talking up is about to leave the concept stage and enter the construction zone. In a phone interview with Politico from Mar-a-Lago, the president said work on a "Triumphal Arch" he's been promoting is slated to start "sometime in the next two months." He continued, "It'll be great. Everyone loves it. They love the ballroom too. But they love the Triumphal Arch."

Politico notes that timeline would put ground-breaking ahead of July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Trump spoke about the arch earlier this month at a White House holiday party, the Guardian reports, saying, "We're building it by the Arlington Bridge, the Arlington cemetery, opposite the Lincoln Memorial. ... And it's something that is so special. It will be like the one in Paris. But to be honest with you, it blows it away. Blows it away in every way."