In an exclusive phone interview with Politico on Wednesday, President Donald Trump revealed exciting plans for two upcoming ventures in the new year. Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump announced that construction of a new landmark, dubbed the ‘Triumphal Arch’ or ‘Arc de Trump’, is set to commence soon. “Construction hasn’t started yet, but it’s scheduled to begin in the next couple of months,” Trump stated confidently. “It’ll be great. Everyone loves it, just like they love the ballroom.”

The design of the arch will closely mirror that of Paris’s iconic Arc de Triomphe and will be situated on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, right in the heart of a current traffic circle. Unlike the controversy surrounding Trump’s ballroom—embroiled in a legal dispute with the National Trust for Historic Preservation after the East Wing of the White House was demolished without proper oversight—the ‘Triumphal Arch’ has encountered fewer bureaucratic hurdles. It is intended as a centerpiece for the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations, which will kick off in Washington, D.C., with an illuminating light show projected onto the Washington Monument.

In another celebratory gesture for the country’s Semiquincentennial, Trump has plans to host Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) matches on the White House’s South Lawn. Coinciding with his own birthday, this event is scheduled for June 14th, when Trump turns 80. According to Trump, the event will feature “many matches, like 10,” with UFC President Dana White—a close friend of Trump—responsible for selecting the fighters.

‘Well, Dana’s picking them. He’s the best fight-picker there is, right?’ Trump said. ‘He’s going to pick all of the top fighters. Going to be all championship matches. It’ll be the best ever, I think. Really incredible.’ Trump’s hands-on approach to projects like planning the UFC fight and the ‘Triumphal Arch’ is atypical for presidents, who are usually swamped with more policy-heavy agenda items. But the White House has argued that the president can do it all – the same argument they made when Trump was pushing in the first term for an Air Force One redesign.

He’s since been gifted a Qatari jet (pictured) that is expected to boast his desired red, white and blue color scheme. Among the president’s more colorful projects, his White House ballroom has commanded the most attention. That’s because the White House did not initially say that the entire East Wing would be torn down to make way for the new construction. When construction equipment started tearing through the East Wing’s facade in late October, the move was met with criticism from veterans of both Democratic and Republican administrations, particularly those who worked in the first ladies’ offices – which were historically housed there.

Trump has argued that the ballroom – and the archway – are his attempt to further beautify Washington, D.C. When hosting ballroom donors in the East Room in mid-October, he touted the arch as well. ‘Every time somebody rides over that beautiful bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, they literally say something is supposed to be here,’ he said. ‘We have versions of it … this is a mockup.’ He pointed out the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the vacant traffic circle. ‘In 1902, they were going to put a statue of Robert E. Lee up,’ he added. ‘Would have been OK with me – would have been OK with a lot of people in this room.’