Donald Trump drew mockery and criticism in equal measure on social media following a new report on the sheer scale of his proposed arch for Washington, D.C.
The president was asked to comment on the monument that will reportedly stand 250 feet tall. And while Trump claimed he didn’t know the exact height of the arch, he in typically bombastic fashion insisted it would be the “biggest one of all” because “we’re the biggest, most powerful nation.”
“We’re considering an arc. It’s like Arc de Triomphe in Paris,” Trump said, adding, without evidence, that Americans had been clamoring for such a monument in the capital for “hundreds of years.”
Trump described the project as a “very exciting job” and suggested there was similar public demand for his similarly massive new White House ballroom, for which he razed the East Wing and which critics warn will completely dwarf the rest of the complex.
Online, critics slammed Trump for focusing on grandiose monuments, which one called a “folly,” rather than lowering prices amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Others joked that Trump, a fan of slapping his name on properties, might dub the structure the “Arc de Trumph.”