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 said during a Cabinet meeting.
While Trump praised the architect of the airport’s main terminal, Eero Saarinen, as “one of the greatest architects in the world,” he said 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 said.
Referring to a recent crash involving a people mover at the airport, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy noted 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 said during the Cabinet meeting.
In early October, Trump made an unplanned stop to Dulles, which the White House said was for the president to assess “potential future projects.”
The airport, which serves the Washington, DC, area, was named after the secretary of state under the Eisenhower administration, John Foster Dulles, and opened in 1962.