President Donald Trump unveiled his latest gilded D.C. vanity project at Wednesday’s lavish White House dinner for his billionaire backers.

The 79-year-old ex-real estate developer used the dinner to showcase multiple proposed versions of a massive triumphal arch he hopes to erect across from the Lincoln Memorial, awkwardly holding up miniature models for his guests to inspect.

Trump is planning his national monument for the traffic circle at the end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Arlington National Cemetery.

At the glitzy dinner, which Trump hosted while more than half a million federal workers are furloughed amid the government shutdown, the president claimed that “every time” people drive across the bridge towards the currently undevel

See Full Page