President Donald Trump released updated renderings Friday of a proposed triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., that he says will serve as a centerpiece of celebrations marking the United States’ 250th ...
"The reason that Washington DC does not have a triumphal arch is because the United States has never had an emperor or king." ...
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The Arch Is Atrocious

The meanings of words such as honor, sacrifice, and humility have been leaking away from American civic life like red blood cells from an anemic. But if there’s one place where they retain their rich, ...
President Donald Trump’s quest to have the tallest arch in the world took one step closer to being realized on Thursday after a key agency approved a revised design.
On Oct. 28, President Donald Trump fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency with an important but often overlooked job: To review construction projects in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump with an arch model in October 2025. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) At first, it was supposed to be under 60 feet. Then ...
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of monuments. By Mark Landler Reporting from Paris For someone who regularly ...
Design experts weigh in on Trump's latest "oversized gesture of power and self-importance." ...
The most famous triumphal arches have unavoidable associations with autocratic power and imperial violence. Trump’s favored monumental style, with its visual and ideological connections to ...