Trump’s triumphal arch will cause a slew of ‘adverse’ effects, administration admits — but its plans are staying

Charles Birnbaum of The Cultural Landscape Foundation and among a chief critic of the project, said: “If the goal of the federal review is to ‘avoid, minimize, or mitigate’ negative impacts on designated cultural and historic resources, the administration has opted for willful blindness, knowing full well that the Arch will forever disrupt the symbolic and visual connections between the Lincoln Memorial, the Kennedy gravesite and Eternal Flame, and Arlington National Cemetery, and scores of revered sites throughout the area.”