U.S. President Donald Trump is no stranger to ambitious construction projects but could he be eyeing one of his biggest yet?

A mock-up of a triumphal arch sat on Trump’s Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as he met Finnish President Alex Stubb on Thursday, an AFP journalist and photographer saw.

The plan, featuring small models on a map, shows the arch sitting on a traffic circle near Arlington Cemetery, on the other side of the Potomac River from the white marble Lincoln Memorial.

A second, larger model arch sat on the desk, on which details could be seen more clearly, including a winged golden angel holding aloft a torch, flanked by two white eagles on either side.

Both models resembled the famed Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which was commissioned by the French emperor Napoleon in the ear

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