President announces plan to build 'Trump Promenade' at Lincoln Memorial – USA Today

President Donald Trump intends to build a promenade behind the Lincoln Memorial, he announced at a White House event June 4.
“They want to call it the Trump Promenade, but I don’t know if I want to do that, but it’s going to be beautiful,” Trump said.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum stated that the promenade would connect the back side of the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River and that the promenade was a part of the McMillian Plan, the early 20th century plan that laid out the National Mall.
He added that the proposed promenade’s pedestrian bridge would take visitors “right down to the water.”
“Right now, there’s no pedestrian access,” Burgum said. “People come from around the world they don’t know that 100 yards away is the beautiful Potomac River.”
The announced promenade is the latest in a slate of construction projects Trump has launched, an effort that has reshaped the face of the nation’s capital.
During the event he touted his proposed 250-foot arch on the Memorial Avenue Corridor, which has drawn lawsuits and public outcry.
“This is an arc that is a real bow, a beautiful bow to your military and your military victories,” Trump said of the arch. “Nobody’s had more military victories, including recently, than we have.”
He has also demolished the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom complex.
Congress has not authorized construction of a memorial arch on the federal land managed by the National Park Service, which Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, says is a first step required by statute before the government can move forward with construction. Trump also did not seek approval from Congress to begin construction on the ballroom, a fact which is being contested in courts.
Contributing: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY

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