David A. Fahrenthold

That's right.

We're now going to walk west to the Lincoln Memorial to look across the Potomac River at the future site of the Triumphal Arch.

The United States Triumphal Arch.

Cool.

It's less blue than I thought it was going to be.

Like I said, I thought it would be blue.

Right, it is grand and also intimate when you get inside there.

Should we just go to this little patch of green here?

Or do you want to go across the bridge?

I'm happy to do either one.

I don't think so.

250 foot tall that's 25 story tall triumphal arch which is a little bit like the arc de triomphe in paris but bigger and it will have golden statues i believe there'll be angels and eagles it'll be a really large arch dominating this view gotta be the biggest new construction in this kind of official stretch of washington in decades

That's right.

It will be something on the scale of or bigger than the Lincoln Memorial.

We haven't built anything that large as a monument on the Mall in, as you said, decades.

Well, there hasn't been any contracts assigned yet, so we don't know if there's going to be no bid contracts or not.

But it is of a similar vein in that he is trying as much as he can to avoid or bypass outside oversight.

So even to Congress, he's made the point to Congress that normally they would have to approve something this large in Washington's monumental core.

But he said they don't need to because 100 years ago, another Congress approved a sort of similar sounding project that was never built.

And so it already has congressional approval.