President Donald Trump took the idea, enlarged it and is now pushing to begin construction on a 250-foot-tall arch as soon as possible. The planned monument, which would be built in a traffic roundabout on the edge of the city,

The mammoth triumphal arch President Trump wants to build would sit under one of the most complex sections of the national airspace — directly in the paths of flights in and out of Ronald Reagan National Airport and just a few miles from the site of a catastrophic midair collision last year.

Design experts weigh in on Trump's latest "oversized gesture of power and self-importance."

President Donald Trump’s quest to have the tallest arch in the world took one step closer to being realized on Thursday after a key agency approved a revised design.

Donald Trump‘s proposed arch, which has been surrounded by controversy for months, will feature an observation deck. However, it remains unclear how the monument will be easily accessible to visitors.

The meanings of words such as honor, sacrifice, and humility have been leaking away from American civic life like red blood cells from an anemic. But if there’s one place where they retain their rich, sticky, life-giving force, it’s surely in the air around the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

"It is unthinkable that we would desecrate this hallowed space to build a monument to Donald Trump’s ego," argued one lawmaker.

"I think it's just disrespectful to those that I served with who didn't come back," a veteran suing to stop construction of the arch told CBS News.

A hearing on concerns over Donald Trump’s plans to build himself a “triumphal arch” in D.C. descended into chaos as his appointees were heckled over the project’s “vanity” and “ugliness.” “For those of you who are opposed to this project,