WASHINGTON – A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump’s proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects to the sightline between a host of iconic landmarks in Washington, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials.

The report released Friday says the 250-foot-tall (76-meter) memorial arch is likely to disrupt the historical significance of dozens of sites near its planned location adjacent to Memorial Bridge.

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    5 hours ago

    Now he only needs to win a war to claim a triumph arch. Maybe he should build it in Teheran. He actually won a war for them.

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    16 hours ago

    I can see that donnie is focused on the important work for the American people. 🙄

    What’s the rush, donnie? If you are so wonderful, you wouldn’t have to build these monuments to yourself, others would gladly do it after you’re gone.

    If that stupid thing gets built, we need to sell raffle tickets in the next administration to who gets to push the trigger on the demolition.

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      14 hours ago

      Maybe next he’ll demand to be buried under the fucking thing so that everyone will have to keep paying attention to him after he’s gone. Gilded coffin and everything.

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        He’s so delusional, too. He doesn’t understand that any monument, if it were to be tied so directly to him would become a public urinal (or worse, lol).

        Also, I expect lots of people will be spray-painting things on there like “pedo” and “rapist”, etc.

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            11 hours ago

            Cannot imagine why. Besides just being an all-around jerkoff and complete asshole, he’s also threatening the city all the time with various bullshit and nonsense.

            Most recently, he’s threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center if he doesn’t get to put his name on it. I mean: forget politics, who behaves like this? The guy is a selfish jerk doing nothing for the American people or for the city of DC.

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    … But the Park Service report says “the same characteristics that make Memorial Circle sensitive from a preservation perspective are also the characteristics that make it the historically appropriate location for the undertaking.”

    Now, that sounds like a coherent statement, but actually parse the sentence and it’s… bullshit. Huh.