The president said it would connect the monument to the Potomac River.

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced his administration intends to build a "promenade" to connect the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River.

"It will be 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," he said in the Oval Office.

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