Trump’s Suck-Up Arts Chief Says One Supersized Arch Isn’t Enough

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Donald Trump’s chair of the Commission of Fine Arts wants the president to dramatically expand his plans to build tacky monuments to himself across the nation’s capital.

“I think the president should do three,” Rodney Mims Cook Jr. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/16/trump-arch-rodney-cook/" rel="">told the Washington Post of the White House’s existing plans to build a 250-foot “Arch de Trump”—modeled loosely on France’s Arc de Triomphe—near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Cook says he’s already picked out two other prospective locations in the southeast of the city, near the John Philip Sousa Bridge and the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, even though the commission has not yet approved plans for the first.

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