WHO SAYS 70 is too old to raise hell(大闹，强烈抗议)? Not Susan Douglas. Boomers like her are the backbone(骨干，中坚力量) of the resistance to Donald Trump—the median(中位数的) age of No Kings protest organisers around the country is 67. His schemes(计划，方案（常含贬义）) to remodel the capital keep them busy. Recently her group held a three-day vigil(守夜，静坐抗议) near the site of his planned triumphal arch. They did a “resistance dance” and sang along with a “rapid-response choir”. Then they descended on(突然大批涌向) a meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), a zoning board tasked with reviewing the project, to avail themselves of(利用（机会等）) the opportunity for public comment—and give Mr Trump’s lackeys(谄媚的跟班，走狗) on the committee an earful.
谁说70岁就太老不能大闹一场？苏珊·道格拉斯不这么认为。像她这样的婴儿潮一代是抵抗唐纳德·特朗普的中坚力量——全国“不要国王”抗议活动组织者的中位年龄是67岁。特朗普改造首都的计划让他们忙得不可开交。最近，她的团体在他计划建造的凯旋门附近举行了三天的守夜活动。他们跳了“抵抗之舞”，并跟着一个“快速反应合唱团”唱歌。然后，他们突然出现在国家首都规划委员会（NCPC）的一次会议上——这个区划委员会负责审查该项目——利用公众评论的机会，给委员会中特朗普的走狗们一顿痛斥。
At 250 feet (76m) high, the arch is ostensibly(表面上，貌似) meant to commemorate America’s semiquincentennial(250周年纪念). The president revealed its true intent when, asked last year what it would memorialise(纪念，使被记住), he replied “Me”. That the form recalls a passé(过时的，老派的) imperial aesthetic was not lost on(没有被...忽略，明白) anyone at the NCPC meeting: a near-competitor, height-wise(就高度而言), sits in the North Korean capital. Commentators called Mr Trump’s iteration(版本，迭代) an “ego arch” and “silly silliness(蠢透了)”. Ms Douglas declared herself “horrified!”
这座拱门高250英尺（76米），表面上是为纪念美国建国250周年。但总统在去年被问及它将纪念什么时，回答“我”，从而揭示了其真实意图。它的形式让人想起过时的帝国美学，这一点在NCPC会议上没有人忽视：在高度上接近的竞争者是朝鲜首都平壤的一座拱门。评论员称特朗普的版本为“自我拱门”和“愚蠢的蠢行”。道格拉斯女士宣称自己“感到震惊！”
Perhaps even more than its campy(夸张滑稽的，做作的) style, it is the arch’s proposed site that is unsettling(使人不安的) its opponents. Mr Trump wants to put it in Memorial Circle, a roundabout on the axis(轴线) that connects the Lincoln memorial to Arlington cemetery, where 400,000 veterans(退伍军人) and their spouses are buried.
或许比其夸张的风格更甚的是，拱门的拟建地点让反对者感到不安。特朗普想把它建在纪念环岛——这是一个连接林肯纪念堂和阿灵顿公墓轴线上的环形交叉路口，那里安葬着40万退伍军人及其配偶。