Donald Trump is getting his arch false

A US judge in early November blocked construction of the arch -- on which work has yet to begin -- for two weeks to allow time to consider legal challenges to the project. In late 2025, the Republican president also added his name to the Kennedy ...

A rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a social media post chastising Vice President JD Vance, including an order to change the vice president's name, circulated in November. People on social media shared a purported screenshot of a social media post attributed to Trump that claimed, "I'm hereby signing an EXCLUSIVE ORDER legally changing JD Vance's name to JUDAS DISLOYAL VANCE!"

In a post on his social media platform on Sunday, Trump said that, at the request of the U.S. military, he agreed to convert the arch into a "top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage." The Pentagon would not comment to ABC News on Trump's announcement.

A judge temporarily blocked the arch’s construction last week.

Last week, US district judge Tanya Chutkan blocked the Trump administration from breaking ground on the project for 14 days. The justice department recently said construction of the arch, which is modelled on Paris’s Arc de ⁠Triomphe, would not be completed until after the end of Donald Trump’s second term.

The planned 250-foot-tall arch would cast a shadow on the former president’s Arlington memorial, an analysis by The Post found. November 10, 2026 at 7:27 p.m. EST10 minutes ago ... The eternal flame shines in the early morning at the grave of John F. Kennedy in 2013. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) ... Nine members of the Kennedy family sued on Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s triumphal arch, saying that the planned 250-foot-tall structure would wrongly cast a shadow on John F.

The legal filing argues that the arch would cast a shadow on Kennedy family graves and disrupt the sightline from the eternal flame memorializing the former president.

According to Kennedy family members behind the lawsuit, the 25-story arch would "cast a shadow" over memorials to their family members laid to rest in the historic burial site. "President Donald J. Trump is attempting to unlawfully erect a massive arch," says the Kennedy family members’ lawsuit, "that will permanently cast shadows over and damage historically significant sightlines to the existing gravesites and memorials established in the Kennedy family’s honor at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as to the memorials of hundreds of thousands of fallen American heroes."

WASHINGTON - Nine family members ... build a towering memorial arch, saying the 250-foot structure would cast a shadow over their relatives' gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery....