Trump says building DC triumphal arch is domestic policy chief’s ‘primary thing’

Key Highlights

• “And we have a policy thing that’s going to be unbelievable happening.”The nature of that policy initiative might indeed be hard to believe for Americans struggling to make ends meet.“I put Vince in charge of the triumphal arc,” Trump said, using the French word for arch.
• “We’re building an arc, like the Arc de Triumph,” the president added, mixing English and French, in remarks shared on social media by the White House.“We’re building it by the Arlington Bridge, the Arlington cemetery, opposite the Lincoln Memorial.
• You could say Jefferson, Washington, everything, ‘cause they’re all right there,” Trump continued, referring to prominent monuments in the nation’s capital dedicated to three of his predecessors.“And it’s something that is so special.
• It will be like the one in Paris,” Trump said, referring to the Arc de Triomphe, constructed between 1806 and 1836 at the western end of the Champs-Élysées, honoring those who died fighting for France in the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.“But to be honest with you,” Trump said, the new arch Haley will be in charge of constructing will be much better than the one Napoleon Bonaparte ordered up.
• “It blows it away.