Kennedy Family Unites to Stop Trump’s Biggest Pet Project

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The legal action follows a federal judge’s temporary halt to construction on Trump’s vanity project, citing the Post’s previous report on the shadows that would be cast. The ...

The Kennedy family has united in a new legal attempt to prevent President Donald Trump’s latest pet project from casting a shadow over their legacy.

Trump, 80, wants to build a 250-foot triumphal arch on Memorial Circle, across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial. Based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, it has been nicknamed the “Arc de Trump,” and would be twice the size of the Lincoln Memorial.

However, critics have pointed out the impact Trump’s giant arch would have on nearby Washington monuments and memorials, including the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame grave site in the Arlington National Cemetery.

An analysis by The Washington Post found that, for up to nine minutes, 18 days a year, Trump’s colossal vanity arch would cast a shadow over the eternal flame.

Nine members of the Kennedy family filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to try to stop the arch from being built, according to a new Post report.

The lawsuit cites the shadow that would be cast on the former president’s grave site, as well as other graves in the nearby cemetery, where thousands of military dead are buried and remembered.

The legal action follows a federal judge’s temporary halt to construction on Trump’s vanity project, citing the Post’s previous report on the shadows that would be cast.

The nine family members comprise ex-Democratic Congressman Joe Kennedy, seven of the surviving children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy (but not Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), and Edward Kennedy Jr.

“President Donald J. Trump is attempting to unlawfully erect a massive arch that will permanently cast shadows over and damage historically significant sight lines 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,” the family’s lawsuit states.

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