The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved  President Donald Trump's proposal to build a 250-ft Triumphal Arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. 

The panel reviewed plans submitted by the Interior Department to construct the new monument in the center of Memorial Circle on the man-made Columbia Island. 

“It’s going to be really beautiful. I think it’s going to be fantastic,” President Trump told potential donors when he presented the project earlier this year. 

The commission received more than 1,000 public comments about the proposal. "100 percent" of those were negative, the commission's secretary, Thomas Luebke, said.  

President Trump is using his second term to make his permanent mark on the landscape of the nation's capital. He has ordered the construction of a new ballroom on the White House grounds, is overseeing a remodel of the newly renamed Trump-Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, and has also proposed plans to repaint a historic office building connected to the White House complex.