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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will move to overhaul Washington Dulles International Airport, calling it “a terrible airport” and pledging a redesign he said would transform one of the capital region’s primary travel hubs.
Speaking during a White House Cabinet meeting, President Trump said Dulles “should be a great airport, and it’s not a good airport at all.” He argued the facility suffers from fundamental design flaws despite what he described as an architecturally significant main terminal.
“It was incorrectly designed with a good building, actually,” President Trump said, praising architect Eero Saarinen’s work and calling the terminal “a beautiful terminal” and “a great building.” But, he added, “they have a great building and a bad airport.”
Trump said his administration has created “an amazing plan” to remake Dulles and present it as a flagship infrastructure project for the region. The airport serves Northern Virginia and connects travelers across the broader Washington area, including Maryland and the District of Columbia.
“We’re going to turn that around, and we’re going to make Dulles Airport serving Washington and Virginia, Maryland, etc., — we’re going to make that into something really spectacular,” he said. While calling it “not a great airport,” The president said it can be made “great.”
He also cited problems with the airport’s passenger transport system, often referred to as “people movers,” noting a recent crash.
The president’s announcement follows several recent plans to improve the White House and locations in the nation’s capital. He also announced efforts to improve the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, posting a video to Truth Social with the caption, “This is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and I fix it. Study it hard because you won’t be seeing this Biden filth and incompetence much longer!”
RSBN previously reported that President Trump earlier outlined plans for a new monument between Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Lincoln Memorial, proposing an arch centered in the Memorial Circle roundabout to honor the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026. He also broke ground on a new White House ballroom, a project that marks one of the most significant structural additions to the building in many years.