A TWO HUNDRED FIFTY FOOT ARCH GOES UP NEAR ARLINGTON CEMETERY AND YOUR NATIONAL PARK ENTRANCE FEE IS PAYING FOR IT Not a war memorial. Not a veterans hospital. A "Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck" because Donald Trump wants a Vegas monument to himself within eyesight of the graves of actual soldiers Doug Burgum announced groundbreaking in two weeks like he's hyping a casino opening Price tag as high as one hundred million dollars The National Endowment for the Humanities kicked in fifteen million. The National Endowment for the Arts is siphoning two million more plus up to thirteen million in taxpayer match money An Oregon firm already got half a million dollars just to test the dirt Combine it with the East Wing ballroom, the underground bunker, the new helipad, the Lafayette Square makeover and you're at nine hundred twenty seven million dollars of public money remodeling Washington into Trump's personal palace A board Trump appointed himself rubber stamped the design in May and refused to even shrink it, keeping the giant gold angel and two eagles on top because Donald Trump does not do modest The one agency with actual legal jurisdiction over that land never got to review it at all That's not an oversight, that's the plan, skip the people who might say no There's already a lawsuit sitting in front of a judge right now while excavation crews get ready to start digging Meanwhile national park visitors are funding a monument to the guy who runs the government those parks depend on Somewhere a ranger is patching a bathroom with duct tape while a golden eagle statue gets bolted three hundred feet in the air over Arlington This is not infrastructure, this is a pharaoh building his tomb on your dime And they are not going to stop until his name is on every inch of this city