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Democrats are intensifying their fight against President Donald Trump’s plan to install the Memorial arch, combining heated attacks and legal pressure to stop the project in court.
“Democrats are against anything that celebrates the greatness of our country because America has finally lost,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Monday. “The Triumphal Arch in Memorial Circle will be one of the most iconic symbols not only in Washington, DC, but around the world.”
Democratic lawmakers are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s 250-foot proposal, questioning its cost and features after the project was unveiled Friday, as legal challenges to the president’s administration continue.
“While you’re worried about health care and the price of gas [because] of Trump’s campaign, he’s busy designing a 250-foot arch he calls ‘Arc d’Trump’ #allabouthim,” Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed wrote on X.
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Rep. Huffman criticizes Trump’s triumphal arch, calling it a “Christian Nationalist monument” (Harrison Design via White House Commission of Fine Arts)
“Your taxes may be going up. But don’t worry – at least $15 million will go to Trump’s big project,” wrote the Press Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom on X.
Meanwhile, California’s long-troubled high-speed rail project was approved in 2008 at an initial cost of $33 billion before ballooning to $126 billion in expected costs this year. The Department of Transportation canceled billions of dollars in federal grants for the summer 2025 project, saying it had no way to complete it.
“The golden inscription ‘One Nation Under God’? Those words came from Cold War propaganda, not our founding fathers,” California Rep. Jared Huffman wrote in X.
He added, “Trump’s gold stamp on his vanity arch tells you everything about what this project is: a Christian Nationalist monument, paid for with your tax dollars.”
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Huffman, along with other Democratic lawmakers, filed a court brief opposing the plan last month, saying the president could not erect the monument on federal land without congressional approval.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Huffman’s office for comment.
“Allowing the Arch to be built without proper authorization and congressional review would lead to uncontrolled proliferation of monuments, erosion of public space, and serious impediments to the ability of future generations to remember their losses and achievements,” the amicus brief reads.
President Trump has promised the American people that he will make the nation’s capital “safe and beautiful.” (Photo by Alex Brandon/AP)
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President Trump has been on a mission to implement last year’s Executive Order titled, “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful.”
“I will take care of our precious Capital, and we will make it, indeed, GREATER! Before the tents, squalor, dirt, and crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the world. Soon it will be,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in August.
The designs released show a golden, winged Lady Liberty-style figure atop an arch flanked by two bald eagles crowning the monument. Beneath the carvings at the top of the arch, “ONE NATION UNDER GOD
written in gold. The back of the arch has the same image, which reads “LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.”
The arch is proposed to sit next to the Lincoln Memorial in the roundabout between Memorial Bridge and Memorial Avenue near the Arlington Cemetery Metro Stop.
“It will enhance the visitor experience at Arlington National Cemetery for veterans, families of the fallen, and all Americans alike, which will serve as a visual reminder of the great sacrifices made by many of America’s heroes throughout our 250-year history so that we can enjoy our freedom today,” Ingle continued in his comments to Fox News Digital.
Workers affixed signs adding the name of US President Donald Trump to the front of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Getty Images)
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The legal threats and fiery rhetoric aimed at the upcoming arch coincide with a broader wave of Democratic backlash against recent cultural and political trends linked to Trump.
In December, Democrats erupted in outrage over the renaming of the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
Ohio Representative Joyce Beatty, along with other plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit to reverse the renaming of “The Trump-Kennedy Center” and block its planned two-year closure.
The $400 million White House ballroom is embroiled in a legal battle after the National Trust for Historic Preservation sued in December saying Trump overstepped his authority when he demolished the East Wing.
The appeals court ruled on Saturday that the overhaul will continue until Friday, giving the President time to seek a Supreme Court review.
