Trump moves to remake Dulles Airport, weighing redesign proposals

[Zorro]

The administration is considering plans that include building a new terminal and doing away with the people movers.

President Donald Trump is personally driving efforts to remake Dulles International Airport — and his plans go far beyond trying to put his name on it.

Trump earlier this month hosted about a half-dozen infrastructure and construction companies in the Oval Office, with executives taking turns pitching the president and Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy on their proposals to overhaul the Washington-area airport, according to four people familiar with the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. The companies — which included AECOM, one of the firms working on the president’s White House ballroom project — laid out ideas to change Dulles’s layout, build new terminals and do away with the airport’s sometimes-notorious shuttles known as people movers, the people said.

Trump will convene companies again Wednesday to hear updated proposals for redesigning one of the country’s most prominent gateways, the people said, as he seeks to fast-track changes to a facility he has derided as “badly designed.”

About 27 million passengers, including 10 million international passengers, travel through Dulles per year, with passengers rating the airport relatively poorly compared with other large airports. Trump officials began discussing changes to the airport last year as part of the administration’s push for a “golden age of travel” and initiative to address the region’s infrastructure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/25/trump-weighs-remake-dulles-airport/

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Like he knows anything about design!

Besides, isn't it technically in VA?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. It's run by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.

https://www.mwaa.com/about-airports-authority

[Lovie777]

2. shithole sure likes spending tax payer's money on total bullshit..................

resign.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. ANY Hardy's has superior aesthetics to anything Trump

Contrast with...

[bif]

5. He has the Midas Touch in reverse

Everything he touches turns to shit.

[Wednesdays]

13. ETTD.

Everything Trump touches, dies.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Give him some Tinker Toys and an Erector Set and put him on the porch

I'm sure he knows so much about airline safety, airport design and maintenance. Not!

[Tommy Carcetti]

7. Pretty soon every airport in America will be named after Trump.

If he gets his way with it.

[Hugin]

12. In the past branding is how he has made maximum money with the least effort.

It’s worked because below the brand horse crap there has been an organization with a vested interest in the enterprise, you know, making money. So, the branding was the cost of doing business. Sort of like a... tariff.

However, Trump’s brand has become so toxic that it’s driving away anyone with the actual sense to be running any establishment and making a profit or even breaking even as a not-for-profit. SEE: The Kennedy Center.

[Initech]

8. Why the fuck does he get to make so many changes to everything?

[Deminpenn]

9. All these building projects are the way

Trump's staff like Miller keep Trump occupied, distracted and out of their way. Same with the exec orders.

Trump is merely a useful idiot to them.

[Deep State Witch]

10. He's Right In One Respect

Dulles is a confusing airport. I've flown out of there for international flights, and it sucks balls. And getting there is a pain, too. But it would be a shame to tear down that iconic building.

[Hugin]

11. Spending like a drunken sailor. n/t