The View from Here

Whether it’s a proposed 250-foot arch, a billion-dollar ballroom, or a planned “Garden of Heroes,” everything Trump builds is a monument to himself

By Paul Goldberger

For all of you out there who have always thought that the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was a little too modest, a little too plain, and, worst of all, a little too small, here comes the “Arc de Trump,” which is neither modest nor plain. And at 250 feet high, it is emphatically not small. If it is ever built—a possibility that will do nothing to improve either Washington, D.C., as a city or the position of the United States of America on the world stage—it would be the largest triumphal arch in the world.

That, of course, is what the current occupant of the White House wants. READ ON