Officials admit Trump’s triumphal arch will have ‘adverse affects’ on historic sites – but say it should still go ahead

Disputing the Interior’s claim to transparency, Charles Birnbaum, founder of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, said in a statement: “The administration is being very transparent in their overt hostility to public input and the regulatory process and the result will be to permanently disfigure one of the nation’s most revered and richly symbolic cultural landscapes.”