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The president and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum cast the proposed \u201cTrump promenade\u201d as fulfilling an early-20th-century vision to connect the National Mall with the nearby waterfront.<\/strong><\/p>

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President Donald Trump holds up a picture Thursday of the newly resurfaced Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. (Brendan Smialowski\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump has announced his next Washington construction project: a pedestrian bridge he says will connect the National Mall with the Potomac River.<\/p>\n

The planned walkway would flank the Lincoln Memorial and take pedestrians over a pair of busy roadways, the president and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon. The project is the latest in Trump\u2019s growing list of changes to Washington\u2019s monumental core, including his recent effort<\/a> to renovate<\/a> the Lincoln Memorial\u2019s Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful project, and it\u2019s going to take the Lincoln Memorial right down to the Potomac,\u201d Trump said, adding that officials were still discussing a name for the walkway. \u201cThey want to call it the \u2018Trump promenade,\u2019 but I don\u2019t know if I want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burgum said the new bridge would help visitors to the Lincoln Memorial \u2014 particularly tourists from around the world \u2014 navigate more of Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t know that a hundred yards away is the beautiful Potomac River,\u201d Burgum said. \u201cNow they\u2019d be able to walk around the Lincoln Memorial, walk on a pedestrian bridge over the first highway, walk over the next one, and right down to the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump and Burgum cast the planned bridge as the fulfillment of ideas considered in a 1901-1902 report overseen by the Senate Park Commission,known as the McMillan Plan, which laid the groundwork for construction of the National Mall and the beautification of much of the city\u2019s core. Urban planners at the time considered proposals that would have more directly connected the Lincoln Memorial with the nearby river and allowed for construction of a promenade.<\/p>

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Trump said Thursday that he was also restoring the original entrance of the Lincoln Memorial, contending that the \u201cmain entry\u201d to the memorial was intended to be from the water.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Lincoln Memorial, the front was supposed to be the back, the back was supposed to be the front,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

Outside architects and historians said they were puzzled by Trump\u2019s remarks about the Lincoln Memorial, saying that he was misconstruing its design. They noted that the National Mall and the surrounding city have evolved since the McMillan Plan and called for more public discussion and a formal review of Trump\u2019s latest project before it proceeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a mess,\u201d said Caren Yglesias, an architect who teaches on the McMillan Plan at the University of Maryland. \u201cLook up the McMillan Plan and you\u2019ll see many different elements that were not built.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has pursued a number of major projects in and around the National Mall, including renovating the Reflecting Pool on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial, gilding the statues on the nearby Arlington Memorial Bridge, and planning a 250-foot-tall triumphal arch by Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>

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Philip Kennicott contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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