President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he is planning to build a "promenade," which will be a pedestrian bridge, connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River.

The announcement comes as workers are finishing repairs on the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, which has been the latest of Trump's projects to beautify the nation's capital.

“We’re doing something that just came up. We’ll have a little breaking news here, because nobody’s heard of it, but at the Lincoln Memorial, the front was supposed to be the back, the back was supposed to be the front,” the president said. “It never got built because they built two roadways behind it after it was built, and it shut off the gateway to the water that was really going to be the main entry."

Trump said the walkway is going to be called the "promenade," and the "Trump Promenade," as some people suggested to him.

“It’s going to be beautiful. It’s a beautiful project, and it’s going to take the Lincoln Memorial right down to the Potomac, which it was always scheduled to do," he added.

The president did not indicate when the project would begin, but Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed the plans, stating the original plans for the memorial had existed "almost since the end of the Civil War," according to the Washington Examiner. 

“On the backside of the Lincoln, as President Trump described, right now there’s no pedestrian access,” Burgum said. “You’re on the Mall, people come from around the world. They don’t know that 100 yards away is the beautiful Potomac River, which was part of the original plan. And now they’d 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. It would complete the vision. These projects would complete the original vision.”

The revelation occurred during the president's announcement of a $700 million investment in coal projects.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.