At the White House Christmas Reception on Sunday, Donald Trump spent several minutes boasting about a grand new triumphal arch for Washington. Except he kept calling it an arc, probably because he wants to name it “Arc de Trump.” The mistake was small, but the symbolism was unmistakable.
Standing at the podium at the reception, Trump decided to unveil what he framed as a historic national project. He launched into a rambling monologue about constructing a massive triumphal arch in Washington. Only Trump didn’t call it that. He repeatedly referred to it as an “arc,” and said it’d be modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
