Why Does Trump Want to Build the Arc de Trump?

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00:00Gemma, he's also proposed an Arc de Trump to commemorate the country's 250th anniversary next year.

00:08Arc de Trump might take longer than a year to build, maybe?

00:12I think this, you know, obviously they're celebrating their 250th anniversary,

00:16so we'll see how long the Arc de Trump takes to build.

00:18This is being done, evidently, with the leftover cash from the donors from the ballroom.

00:25So again, it's privately funded.

00:26There's so much being privately funded right now, you know, it sets alarm bells ringing.

00:32Yes, he wants to build a triumphal arch across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

00:37Now it's been dubbed the Arc de Trump, obviously,

00:40and it's to commemorate the 250th anniversary next year, being privately funded.

00:44And it's based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

00:48And I found this interesting because I feel that Trump would really love to have

00:52the kind of history that Europeans have in the U.S.

00:57Because he talks about the U.K. a lot, you know, the sense of history,

01:01and he really loves all of that.

01:02He loves the king.

01:03Yes, he does.

01:03He really kind of got that sense.

01:05So I think this is his way of trying to sort of get some of that,

01:09that ye olde worlde that he craves so much.

01:13So, yeah, he unveiled the plans for it at one of the dinners for the ballroom.

01:20And he said there's a small version, a medium version, and a large version.

01:23I think we can all guess which his preferred version was.

01:26Yes.

01:27It's being fully financed.

01:29And, yeah, the architects have already come out next to talk about it,

01:33saying America needs a triumphal arch.

01:36And, yeah, the architects have already come out next to talk about it.