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Where Have All The Soldiers Gone? President Donald Trump on Thursday announced plans to add a potential “Trump promenade” to the iconic Lincoln Memorial, in his latest grandiose bid to leave his mark on the US capital.
Trump said the walkway would link the huge marble monument, built to commemorate Civil War-era president Abraham Lincoln, to the nearby Potomac River.
“They want to call it the Trump Promenade,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he unveiled the project for the first time. “I don’t know if I want to do that, but it’s going to be beautiful.”
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Work has only just been completed on Trump’s plan to resurface the Reflecting Pool near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, with water being pumped in on Thursday.
For the second day in a row, the 79-year-old Trump showed off a chart titled “Our Pool is Bigger than Skyscrapers” comparing the scale of the pool to three famous buildings.
Trump has unleashed a huge public works programme in Washington since returning to office last year, refurbishing a series of monuments, knocking down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom and planning a huge triumphal arch.
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