The president’s latest vanity construction project—the “Arc de Trump,” as it has been dubbed online—is naturally attracting tons of criticism. The monument is big, white, with ornate and angelic gold touches; it’s set to sit on the D.C. side of Memorial Bridge across the river from Arlington National Cemetery.

When asked what the arch will commemorate, Trump has said it’s, well, him (naturally). But unappealing though it may therefore be to the majority of Americans who currently give the President a thumbs-down, the arch remains the wrong issue for even those with the most serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome to melt down about.

On Friday, Fox News spotlighted a group of hot pink construction vest-wearing protesters demonstrating against the monument while carrying signs comparing Trump to Hitler—plus someone dressed up as a frog, because you can’t have a good anti-Trump protest these days without inflatable amphibians. You see, Hitler, too, liked monumental, self-congratulatory architecture, and he was a warmongering dictator.

Anti-Trump outlet The Bulwark, meanwhile, highlighted Trump’s incredulity at a group of veterans suing over the arch’s proposed location. They dislike the “vainglorious” notion of the nation’s veterans being buried in its shadow (though, officially, they are suing on the basis that the arch violates federal law, lacking congressional approval and all).

This is all just the latest iteration of outrage over Trump’s building spree across our nation’s Capitol, following his........

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