Trump’s ‘Triumphal Arch’ Is Vastly Larger Than Other Washington Monuments

Twice the size of the seated president inside the Lincoln Memorial and three times as tall as the bronze statue that stands within the Jefferson Memorial, the winged figure that will top President Donald Trump’s proposed “triumphal arch” will rise some 60 feet high, the equivalent of a six-story building.

That Lady Liberty-like statue is the gold-plated avatar of a monument — a copy of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, only bigger — that will rise 250 feet in the sky, making it one of the largest structures in the city. If built as planned, the arch will be taller than the twin spires of the Washington Post’s office building on on K Street — the district’s tallest commercial building — and twice the size of any other office building downtown, elevating a traffic circle near Arlington National Cemetery as a new focal point in the US capital’s historic framework.