Trump Unveils Plan to Build Promenade at Lincoln Memorial

‘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,’ President Donald Trump said.

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.