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Arc de Trump? Trump touts a new real estate project. No, not the ballroom
Story by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY
Call it the Arc de Trump.
At a dinner to thank donors for contributing to his longtime passion project - a $250 million, 90,000 square-foot ballroom at the White House - President Donald Trump unveiled a new scheme.
Standing behind a podium in the East Room on Oct. 15, while guests sat at round tables, he picked up a 3-D model of a giant arch, reminiscent of Paris's imposing Arc de Triomphe. He pointed to a table with a map showing its proposed location across from the Lincoln Memorial. The arch would serve as a gateway to Washington D.C. while entering through the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
"That's Arlington Memorial Bridge," he said. "And at the end of it, you have a circle that was built 150 years ago. You have two columns on one side, two columns on the other, yet in the middle, just a circle. And everyone in the past had said something was supposed to be built there. But a thing called the Civil War interfered. That's a good reason."
Trump showed off 3-D models of the project, in three sizes: "small, medium and large" he said.
He did not offer any further details on the cost or who would fund it - nor what permits it might require or when it would be built. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the proposed arch.
Trump then went on to name presidents who had undertaken various projects in the White house: "James Monroe who added the South Portico to Andrew Jackson who added the North Portico to Theodore Roosevelt, who added the West Wing," he said. "And Harry Truman, who added the Truman Balcony."
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