President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to rebuild Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Virginia, calling it a “badly designed airport.”
“We’re also going to rebuild Dulles Airport, because it’s not a good airport. It should be a great airport,” he mentioned throughout a Cabinet assembly.
While Trump praised the architect of the airport’s principal terminal, Eero Saarinen, as “one of the greatest architects in the world,” he mentioned it’s “a great building at a bad airport,” teasing an “amazing plan” for the airport’s reimagining.
“It was a badly designed airport. We’re going to make it into as good as there is in the country. It’ll be exciting,” Trump mentioned.
Referring to a latest crash involving a folks mover on the airport, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy famous the administration would announce a request for bids to work on the “mobile lounges.”
“It’s not a great airport, which we can make great in this administration,” Duffy mentioned through the Cabinet assembly.
In early October, Trump made an unplanned cease to Dulles, which the White House mentioned was for the president to evaluate “potential future projects.”
The airport, which serves the Washington, DC, space, was named after the secretary of state underneath the Eisenhower administration, John Foster Dulles, and opened in 1962.