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'Appalled' Gold Star mom: If Trump thinks we’ll stay silent — he’s 'wrong’
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a model of an arch monument during a ballroom dinner in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Trump’s Arch Would Turn Arlington’s Dead Into His Backdrop
The Monument Is the Message
The proposed 250-foot arch at Memorial Circle is not an innocent piece of infrastructure. It is a 25-story assertion of presidential vanity placed between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The administration acknowledges that it would obstruct the existing view and answers that…
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