Reported Size Of Trump’s New ‘Folly’ Draws Backlash Amid Cost-Of-Living Crisis | EUROtoday

Donald Trump drew mockery and criticism in equal measure on social media following a brand new report on the sheer scale of his proposed arch for Washington, D.C.

The president was requested to touch upon the monument that can reportedly stand 250 toes tall. And whereas Trump claimed he didn’t know the precise peak of the arch, he in sometimes bombastic trend insisted it will be the “biggest one of all” as a result of “we’re the biggest, most powerful nation.”

“We’re considering an arc. It’s like Arc de Triomphe in Paris,” Trump mentioned, including, with out proof, that Americans had been clamoring for such a monument within the capital for “hundreds of years.”

Trump described the mission as a “very exciting job” and prompt there was comparable public demand for his equally huge new White House ballroom, for which he razed the East Wing and which critics warn will utterly dwarf the remainder of the advanced.

Online, critics slammed Trump for specializing in grandiose monuments, which one referred to as a “folly,” relatively than reducing costs amid an ongoing cost-of-living disaster. Others joked that Trump, a fan of slapping his identify on properties, would possibly dub the construction the “Arc de Trumph.”