The Lincoln Memorial as seen from the newly reopened Washington Monument in Washington on Nov. 14, 2025. Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he planned to build a promenade connecting the Lincoln Memorial and the Potomac River.

“We’re going [to call it] the promenade. They want to call it the ‌Trump Promenade, but I don’t know if I want to do that, but it’s going to be beautiful,” Trump told reporters at the White House on June 4.

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