The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) has approved the project to build President Trump's proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch, located between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The commission reviewed the Interior Department's submitted plans for the arch in Memorial Circle on Columbia Island, a human-made, National Park Service-ran island in the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia. CFA Vice Chairman James McCrery III criticized the design for the addition of gold lions positioned outward from the arch’s base, arguing that given they are not native to North America, they should be replaced with a species of animal from the continent. The CFA received just under 1,000 submitted comments about the project.