Dimensions of Trump’s massive new ‘Triumphal Arch’ are revealed as president ‘chooses the biggest size possible’ to honor America and wow visitors
According to insider information, the ‘Triumphal Arch’ planned by President Donald Trump will have a huge 250-meter tower, much higher than previously thought.
Sources told Washington Post The proposed monument’s size would dwarf France’s other popular landmarks, such as the Arc de Triomphe and the White House.
Trump announced plans to erect a monument to commemorate America’s 250th birthday in October.
The arch will be located on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, at the traffic interchange between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, he said.
The project will be financed from remaining private donations. from white house ballroom renovation.
The proposed arch would stand 250 feet high, 99 feet taller than the nearby Lincoln Memorial and 70 feet taller than the White House.
The president has previously considered smaller versions of the monument, including the 165- and 123-foot designs he shared last year.
But sources told the Post he decided ‘250 by 250’ made the most sense and would be more likely to wow tourists and visitors.
For comparison, the height of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is 54 meters.
Newly revealed documents show that President Donald Trump’s planned ‘Triumphal Arch’ will be up to 70 meters high; it is much taller than previously understood and tall enough to dwarf nearly every landmark around it.
Cyclists follow the Potomac River in Virginia, near the Arlington Memorial Bridge, to Mt. They bike along Vernon Road.
Trump said the arch would be located on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, at the traffic interchange between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
Trump has touted the arch as the centerpiece of the nation’s Centennial celebrations and told Politico that the project has attracted great interest among his supporters.
Last year Trump said Policy The construction of the ‘Triumphal Arch’, nicknamed ‘Arc de Trump’, will begin in a short time.
‘It hasn’t started yet. It will start within the next two months. It will be great. Everybody loves it,” he said from Mar-a-Lago. ‘They love the ballroom too. “But they love the Arc de Triomphe,” he added.
The belt was planned alongside other high-profile ventures, including a UFC fight night on the South Lawn of the White House to coincide with his 80th birthday and a large-scale light show projected onto the Washington Monument.
Trump stated that the UFC event will feature ‘as many as 10 matches,’ adding that Dana White will pick the card. ‘Well, Dana picks them.
He’s the best fighter there is, right? He will choose all the best fighters. There will be all championship matches. I think it will be the best ever. It’s truly incredible.”
The monument marks Trump’s latest foray into construction and comes on the heels of divisive renovations to the White House.
A model of the ‘Triumphal Arch’, also called the ‘Trump Arch’, was photographed sitting at the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk in October.
In meetings with donors last fall, Trump argued that both projects would “beautify” Washington.
He marked the empty intersection near the Arlington Memorial Bridge and declared that something monumental had always ‘belonged’ there.
“Every time someone walks across that beautiful bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, they literally say there must be something here,” Trump told donors.
‘There are versions of this…it’s a model,’ he added, noting that planners considered a Robert E. Lee statue for the site in 1902. ‘I wouldn’t mind; ‘That wouldn’t be a problem for most people in this room.’
But some architects and historians have warned that a 250-foot structure would block historic sightlines and spoil the view between Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial.
Art critic Catesby Leigh, who previously proposed a temporary 60-foot pop-up concept arch in a 2024 opinion piece, objected to Trump’s oversized vision.
“I don’t think an arch that big belongs there,” Leigh told the Washington Post. ‘If you’re going to build an arch this big, you should build it somewhere else in the city, and one possible location that comes to mind is Barney Circle. There’s nothing around to compete with it.’
The White House commissioned Leigh’s recommended architect, Nicolas Leo Charbonneau, to develop the arch with a variety of designs, from classic stone to gilded versions.
Artist diagrams of the planned Arc de Triomphe are seen at a dinner with Trump in October 2025 to raise money for an expansion of the ballroom in the East Room of the White House.
Helicopter shot down while looking over the Southwest Coast towards the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
Calder Loth, retired Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, warned that an 800-foot-tall arch could block pedestrians from seeing Arlington National Cemetery.
“I’m very concerned about the scale,” she told the outlet. ‘This would make Arlington House look just like a doll’s house – or you wouldn’t be able to see it all because the arch blocked the view.’
The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House for comment.
