Ok?
This IS Donald reaching agin to put security as the pass word for something completely stupid, unnecessary and a ego trip….
He now says he want’s his “Arch’ to house drones, snipers and what else?
NOBODY wants the damn thing including Veterans as it is right by the Arlington National Cemetery…..
I doubt it will be built….
If he actually bum rushes it like the East Wing of the White House end run?
The next President should promise to tear it down…..
The “Military Complex/Triumphal Arch” near Arlington National Cemetery will “house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage,” Trump wrote. “There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World.”
Trump’s new claims about the arch, which come as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project, resemble his arguments for the need to build a ballroom at the White House. Trump initially said the ballroom was needed to entertain guests but more recently has said it was a “desperately needed National Security structure.” That argument also has become central to the administration’s legal claims that the ballroom must be built.
The Trump administration, which plans to begin construction on the arch as soon as November, has been consulting with D.C.’s and Virginia’s historic preservation offices as part of a required federal preservation process. The National Capital Planning Commission previously said the arch is intended to be a “visitor destination” with an observation deck.
The topic of converting the arch to a military complex has not previously been raised, even as the project has undergone months of federally required reviews.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the president’s post. The Interior Department, which oversees the federal parkland where the arch would be built, did not immediately reply to requests for comment, and a Pentagon spokesperson said they had nothing to add beyond the president’s post….
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“Putting a drone launching site directly in the landing path for DCA is a stupid, dangerous, and unworkable idea,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-Virginia), who represents the district that encompasses the airport, said on X, suggesting the plan was a legal pretext.
“The President’s belated efforts to manufacture a national security justification for this project do nothing to cure its fundamental illegality,” said Nicolas Sansone, a lawyer at Public Citizen Litigation Group, a watchdog organization that is representing several veteranswho say the large arch would alter their experience when visiting the nearby military cemetery….
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Other federal judges have said that Trump could not claim broad national security reasons as a basis to pursue a construction project that had not been authorized by Congress….
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