Commentary: Trump's vanity arch is coming and it's no triumph for taxpayers

The president has called it an “arc.” Others, such as the rest of the English-speaking world, refer to it as an “arch.”Whatever you choose to call Donald Trump’s latest vanity project, construction crews will soon break ground on the bigliest and most beautiful monument ever in the history of America, the Great Triumphal Arch.Interior Secretary Doug Burgum made the announcement Thursday on social media:“After a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck,” he wrote. “This will be one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture, honoring the history and significance of Arlington Cemetery and befitting the most powerful Capital in the World.”Occupying the sacr