Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends, https://www.congress.gov/contact-us.
Dear Senator/Representative:
I am 100% against President Trumps proposed arch. How many Washington, DC, institutions has he defaced? The White House East Wing. The Kennedy Center. The Institute of Peace. Battleships. A 250th anniversary coin.
His name on paper currency. Trump Rx. Trump Accounts. Trump Gold Cards. Banners with his name and face on government buildings. National Park passes.
Yet that’s not enough to assuage his ego.
I do not want a 250’ high, gold-accented arch that would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and upstage Arlington National Cemetery. It also disrupts the symbolism of Arlington Memorial Bridge, which honored post-Civil War reconciliation.
It would be taller than “monuments to authoritarian triumphalism, including the victory arch in Pyongyang, North Korea,” according to the Washington Post.
When asked whom the arch would honor, Trump said: “Me.”
Unlike the controversial East Wing, this vanity project would use money from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Speak up and speak out. Oppose the NEH funding. Explore ways Congress can block this project.
