Trump Says Construction of His 'Triumphal Arch' Will Begin 'Sometime in the Next Two Months'

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Source: MEDIAite

Dec 31st, 2025, 2:01 pm


President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects construction of the “Triumphal Arch” he wants to build in Washington, D.C. to begin “sometime in the next two months.”

The arch is one of several building projects Trump has pushed for as the country enters into its 250th year, proposed to be constructed at the culmination of a bridge that leads from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery. The design of models Trump has shown reporters echoes that of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France and would be designed to honor America’s military veterans.

The president’s other efforts to remake Washington, D.C. have been divisive, from the demolition of the White House’s East Wing for a ballroom to the addition of his name to the Kennedy Center, cheered by his supporters and drawing condemnation — and lawsuits — from critics.

Politico’s West Wing Playbook author Sophia Cai reported on Trump’s latest comments about the arch project Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-says-construction-of-his-triumphal-arch-will-begin-sometime-in-the-next-two-months/

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NEW: President Trump tells me construction of the Triumphal Arch is expected to begin “sometime in the next two months.”
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Trump says construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’ to begin in ‘2 months’
The monument would be a centerpiece of the White House’s plans for America’s 250th birthday.
11:56 AM · Dec 31, 2025

[Nictuku]

1. I hope he is in jail when we tear it down so he knows we did.

[QueerDuck]

2. It's no coincidence that "triumphal" contains the letters T-R-U-M-P.

It's an odd word to use for a such an occasion or milestone. It seems out of place.

[peppertree]

40. The Philippines had Marcos...We've got Snoozalini

[calimary]

53. Is that still there?

What an eyesore!

[peppertree]

64. Yes - but in ruins

According to the Wackypedia article on the eyesore, it was bombed by leftists rebels in 1989 - and by treasure hunters in 2002.

That second bombing was the more destructive one.

They mistakenly believed that a massive hoard of gold was hidden there - part of the notorious Yamashita's gold cache that a number of Japanese politicians have reputedly had each other killed over the years on account of, and which MacArthur and Al Haig are also said to have drawn from through the CIA-run "M-fund" (the Philippines, you'll recall, had been occupied by Japan).

Remember the incident in which Old Man Bush threw up over the Japanese PM in '92? Disputes over the management of the M-fund were said to be high on the agenda on that trip - albeit secretly.

Who's to say...

[andym]

93. Just needs to strike out the "I": It will be the "TRUMPhal" Arch. NT.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. Omg

[wcmagumba]

4. What a complete idiot. Burning our tax dollars for his glorification (at least that's what he thinks)...

[Traildogbob]

16. And he vetos

A bill for clean water in Booberts state because he wants to cut waste of tax dollars.
Watching a WWII DOC on Smithsonian Channel. Seems Mussolini was part of a massive Arch on the boarder of Egypt. Hitlers BFF General Rommel tried to dedicate it to himself by adding letters on it to honor himself, jealous of Egypts top military in charge of their own military. He hated not being head Natzeeee.
Follow the Natzeeee’s, not just the money.

[Rhiannon12866]

80. Good Grief! My cousin and her family are now in her district!

She told me she's thinking of moving...

[popsdenver]

50. I am sure he will have

a BIG TRUMP carved in it.................

The contractor should be warned to get the money in advance before he even starts........

[Maeve]

5. One more damn thing we'll have to tear down....

[calimary]

52. That's the part I look forward to, most!

[JawJaw]

90. They should hold a lottery

First prize: Detonating the demolition charges.

Would raise MILLIONS!

[Biophilic]

6. The thought of a monument to this draft dodger in front o Arlington Cemetery burns very deeply.

It must not happen!!! If it gets built it needs to be torn down. It is against all decency. I can’t imagine how even the republicans aren’t totally disgusted. It is just plain wrong.

[colorado_ufo]

38. I am thankful my husband's father (Silver Star recipient) is buried in Luxembourg.

So far, he can't touch this.

[Blues Heron]

7. He is a vandal

[Ocelot II]

8. That photo calls to mind the Stonehenge scene in This Is Spinal Tap.

[flvegan]

25. Wouldn't it be beautiful

if that's what happened? They built it exactly to that specified size.

[Ocelot II]

27. Yup. The final product is a little knee-high arch

because the typically incompetent Trump-appointed architects couldn't read the illegible measurements Trump wrote with a Sharpie on the back of an old copy of a fake Time magazine with his fake Man of the Year picture and mixed up millimeters and meters.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

58. Hell, they could just use a toilet seat...

… and use it as his headstone to make a great target for everyone who comes to piss on his grave. *eyeroll*

A few shiny gold stickers and this should be perfect:

[Fil1957]

9. More fun than fighting inflation...

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Has any group or individual filed for an injunction against this monstrosity ?

[NotHardly]

20. Needs to be done!

[tanyev]

11. Oh how he loves his fancy presidential Lego set.

😒

[Diamond_Dog]

12. He's dedicating it to all the Suckers and Losers?

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Sick fuck. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

14. This is about Donald's Rosebud

As a tantrum-prone child, his blocks were taken away.

[purr-rat beauty]

15. The master of Participation Triphies

Has anything he has "earned" actually represent his greatness or is it all bribes, extortion, blackmail, artificial appreciation, and money laundering schemes?

He needs to fucking go the way of the dodo

[Maru Kitteh]

94. No dude. They are bringing the Dodo back. Can't risk it. What do you have in

a nice extinct scum-dependent invertebrate that smelled of sulfur?

[Paladin]

17. Fuck this. (nt)

[MLWR]

18. No one is interested

except to say, we long for the day that we can tear it down.

[Jimi du Ranty]

19. Aren't the Golden Arches already trademarked?

Drive through, get a side of flies and see the clown.

[calimary]

84. I love how you put that.

I got a good chuckle out of it!

And Happy New Year!!!

[Jimi du Ranty]

88. Thanks!

and Happy New Year to all!

[electric_blue68]

21. Over-Bloated (malignant) Narcissist! Go away, NOW!

[MuseRider]

22. That ass

everyone knows it is all about him. This crap about it being about our upcoming birthday is him hiding the fact that he wants us all to celebrate him and his "love of our country."

How much more of this obvious self loving must we put up with? What a sick-o. The worst I have ever seen actually. He needs cuffs and a bed and a lot of meds to calm that over active self love.

[slightlv]

23. This man must die b4 he destroys

The whole world, ala Hitler. No longer will the name Hitler be uttered to designate the worst of all possible worsts... it will be be known as trump by now. Worse than Hitler, baser than the name Mudd...the man will be forever known as evil incarnate... the Antichrist of Christian fools who follow him.

Come on Ragnarok!

[calimary]

59. Any sentence or phrase that starts with "...he wants" tells you all you need to know.

All of this is simple feeding the never-ending “He Wants” machine.

[kacekwl]

24. Some intrepid reporters need

to uncover who the construction companies who will be involved in this and broadcast this everywhere. They need to be shut down before they begin by whatever means necessary.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

26. Go for it Dumbpoleon Boneheadfart. It's just another thing we can tear down...

...with great fanfare and burning of effigies.

[bluestarone]

28. ALL these things we HATE going up, will

Give us so much PLEASURE when we tear them down!!

[calimary]

56. Please keep visualizing that!

And share the idea far ‘n’ wide!

[Botany]

29. We need thousands of Americans to show up and stop that unneeded piece of crap.

Trump does not get carte Blanc to do whatever he wants to the National Mall.

[louis-t]

30. Oh good, that means it will be years before it is started.

"2 months". Right.

[VMA131Marine]

31. The first thing I thought of --- Stonehenge

?si=n8QEwHMC1urdqvhG

[Tanuki]

32. He'll probably paint it gold and open a McDonald's

franchise there.

[pfitz59]

33. When do we build the 'Death Star'?

The Sith lords wanna know.

[kimbutgar]

34. He will go down in history as the worst president in our country's history when he's gone and everything he

Built Should be torn down. And the family name should be synonymous with traitor ( replacing Benedict Arnold) and lying evil grifter in chief.

[the nelm]

35. "The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end."

And can't come soon enough...

[Efilroft Sul]

36. The password is "sabotage".

[SpankMe]

37. No Democratic candidate will get my vote, unless...

...they pledge to:

Fully restore USAID.
Tear down the ballroom.
Tear down the arch.
Remove Trump's name from the Kennedy Center.
Get rid of the wall of presidents and the plaques.

I have a much longer list. But, if Trump can do all this by just doing it, then a Democratic president can undo it by just doing it. I will be enraged if a Democratic president says they "can't" undo anything that Trump did for "reasons". Trump did it by fiat, it can be undone by fiat. In fact, it would be much quicker to demolish than to build.

Except for the civil war, 2025 has been the worst year in American history.

[mahina]

41. I think you might be underestimating

The scale of the problem.

For my part, I’m not interested in excluding any viable candidate for not meeting my personal criteria. There’s no shortage of issues to be enraged at while being enraged sucks up all the energy. Unless that suits you.

[AZ8theist]

83. Don't forget all the tacky gold spray paint in the oval office.....

[BootinUp]

39. I predict they are going to need a lot of security to guard it. nt

[peppertree]

42. This gives added credence to rumors Needy Amin was planning on having the National African-American Museum demolished

Which Snoozalini, of course, refers to as the "Obama museum."

[usonian]

43. Drawings I saw were pretty neat.

[Aussie105]

44. Trump saw the arch in Paris and considered it good.

Not knowing that the Arc de Triomphe's significance has nothing to do with any specific person.

Any construction company involved in the building would need to demand payment up front, and design some strategic places of weakness in it to make later demolition easier.

Because they may be called in later to deconstruct it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. Given his reputation with ripping off contractors is anyone really going to bid on this?

[IronLionZion]

46. He's saving us from fraud, waste, and abuse

[CrispyQ]

47. Reminds me of Stonehenge in Spinal Tap.

[Farmer-Rick]

48. He will demolish the Lincoln Memorial first

He said he wasn't touching the Lincoln Memorial so that means he's tearing it down.

His self congratulatory masturbation requires a sacrifice. So, in the middle of the night asbestos and lead paint be damned, the pedo is going to tear down the Lincoln Memorial first. Because it will own the libs.

[Martin68]

49. Whose "triumph" will it celebrate? Trump has not triumphed over anything, least of all his monumental ego.

[Grins]

51. And if Congress doesn't halt this...

…we are a failed nation. Founding Fathers would be disgusted. And ashamed. Thoroughly.

[Jack Valentino]

54. PUKE

Seems like there ought to be protesters there,
if any construction actually begins....

'Triumph' at robbing the poor and giving to the rich ??

I'll give him that...

[FakeNoose]

55. I'd like to know what "Triumph" he's using taxpayer dollars to celebrate for?

He hasn't done shit ... except to kill 100K Americans with Covid and deport at least that many more.

[mdbl]

86. He's the best at wasting taxpayer's money on himself

But you'll never convince the dumb magats of that.

[LudwigPastorius]

57. "The arch...would be designed to honor America's military veterans."

Oh, bullshit. Nobody believes that.

It's being built to venerate Donald Trump.

[Gore1FL]

60. Given what happened to Aceco, I'm guessing there will be few contractors willing to wade in the waters.

I do see that www.aceco.com is back online, but no link to contact them, lol. I also notice the East Wing is not on their list of notable projects.

[Norrrm]

61. How much more of the White House will he destroy for this arch?

He said the ballroom would not affect the WH.

[area51]

62. He's so jealous of the French Arc de Triomphe,

why doesn't he get jealous of the French healthcare system & work to duplicate it here?

[Enter stage left]

63. Oh yeah, two months after he releases his tax returns...

And sends his gold plated phones to the stupid fucks that sent him money for phones that don't exist.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE THESE STUPID FUCKS WAKE UP?

[Marcuse]

65. !

https://youtube.com/shorts/J22FPsM9r48?si=LRBhz7asWtkyJR7D

[sheshe2]

77. Bwahahahahahaha

I love it!

A wax figure of Donald Trump has been withdrawn from public view after museum visitors repeatedly struck, clawed and physically assaulted it at a San Antonio, Texas, attraction.

The life-sized replica of Trump, exhibited at Louis Tussaud's waxworks, became so severely damaged that employees had no choice but to remove it from the display. It's not just the wax figure that's being mistreated; Jimmy Kimmel recently mocked the U.S. president on his late-night show.

The figure had endured numerous attacks over time, including noticeable facial scratches, with staff acknowledging it had been battered once too often to continue being shown. This comes amid growing fears surrounding Trump's health, as a result of the latest pictures of his hands.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-wax-figure-removed-from-museum-after-being-repeatedly-punched-in-the-face/ar-AA1SgZPz

[sheshe2]

67. Why are you for this "Triumphal Arch"

He is building it to slap his name on it at the taxpayers expense.

I have a question for you, what are your thoughts about him tearing down the East Wing of the WH?

[sheshe2]

69. Tearing down the East Wing of OUR HOUSE...

THE PEOPLES HOUSE on a whim, a vanity project so he can build a Golden ballroom that will dwarf OUR HOUSE is not an "update". It is the destruction of our property without the permission of WE THE PEOPLE.

Jeebus C!

[Cha]

72. An "update" by a Neo Nazi PEDO Destroying

America.. Every Day there's some new Shit coming from the Traitor Asshole.

[Cha]

75. Oh Do Tell Us WHY it will "be a good year"?

If you can.

[sheshe2]

78. Good for whom?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

71. Triumph of what?

His idiocy

[sheshe2]

74. His Insanity.

[JohnnyRingo]

79. No it won't I'd bet $100 on it

He'll keep talking about it and pushing the date back, but it won't happen.

Even if he finds enough private donors (unlikely), the Congress will have to grant him the land to build it on. Even the right side of the aisle will sour on spending a dime on his monument to himself. He might win a little support from those who are facing a tough re-election, but the majority isn't going to let it happen.

[Bread and Circuses]

81. Enough! I'm ready. Get your shovels, rakes and brooms.......

We need to end the republican fascist criminal syndicate’s coup.

We’ve broken through the ice, we need to fight .

I don’t know what to do. Lawsuits and legislation isn’t enough.


We have NO Time left

[Aussie105]

82. Anyone got the phone number for the Grim Reaper?

Not asking for any particular reason, really.

[AverageOldGuy]

85. Does anyone else remember this old adage?

Years and years ago (I'm 81) my father and I were somewhere that had a lot of visitors -- may have been a local historic site, I just don't remember. Right there in plain sight was fresh graffiti where someone had penciled or carved or somehow written their initials and the date.

Dad shook his head and commented:

Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

87. Ethel! We're going to need another truckload of GOLD spray paint!!

[travelingthrulife]

89. That will be blown up shortly after a new President is in office.

[Bettie]

91. What's he going to have torn down for this

monstrosity? He's such a POS.

[Emrys]

92. Is DC really that short of public urinals? n/t

[Skittles]

95. I'm sure those whose health insurance is now unaffordable can appreciate that