2026-08-19T16:56:06.515Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/politics/trump-construction-white-house-helipad
当地时间周三，唐纳德·特朗普总统公布了又一项白宫基建工程，临时邀请记者们陪同他前往南草坪，参观白宫车道翻新工程以及新建直升机停机坪的施工进展。
参观过程中，情绪高涨的特朗普细致入微地强调了自己对这些项目的投入，关注着一些理论上远超他职权范围的细节：护栏的摆放、花岗岩的放射状切割、路面坑洞的修补。参观最后，他在一块巨大的花岗岩板材上签名，他表示这块石材将被“翻转”后铺设在停机坪上。
但在此之前，他介绍了另一项此前未对外公布、且已完工的工程。
“这里原本全是沥青，太过普通，不配一座伟大的宅邸——不配白宫这样伟大的地方，”特朗普在建筑施工的叮当声中，指着脚下的地面说道。他补充说，车道已经翻新完毕，采用的是产自加利福尼亚的白色花岗岩，他将其描述为“非常特别的石材”。
特朗普还透露，他在本月早些时候就下令拆除了已完工的直升机停机坪部分工程。
该起降区的施工在他6月份参加UFC比赛后不久便启动，但几周后CNN就观察到施工中的石材已被拆除。白宫此前拒绝解释此次变动，但特朗普周三表示，他对停机坪的坡度不满意。
“我觉得坡度过大了。设计坡度是为了排水，但我觉得太陡了，”特朗普宣布，停机坪现在将“完全平整”。
随后在对一群工人发表讲话时，特朗普说：“抱歉多花了一周半的时间，但把它抬起来重做是我们做过的最棒的决定之一，对吧？我敢肯定你们当时可不太乐意。”
总统带领媒体前往停机坪围栏的一处开口处，中途停下，向记者们展示白宫外墙的翻新情况。他表示，外墙的油漆已经被铲除并重刷。
“看看这些石材，看看它们有多完美，”他说道，并补充说自己“为这项工作感到非常自豪”。
在抵达未完工的停机坪前，他再次停下参观行程，称赞新铺设的表土和草坪。
“如果你们是草的话，肯定会很高兴的，”他说。
特朗普最钟爱的白宫基建项目——他那座9万平方英尺的宴会厅工程——并未纳入此次参观行程，但总统仍多次提及该项目。他的政府已将该项目提交至最高法院，辩称该建筑及其下方的先进掩体设施属于国家安全事项。最近，他和白宫试图强调这一论点，将宴会厅称为“军事综合体”。
特朗普淡化了美国最高法院可能作出不利于他的裁决并叫停工程的担忧，称他“无法想象这种情况会发生”。
根据本月早些时候提交的法庭文件，宴会厅工程进展迅速，一支250人的团队每天工作20小时，每周七天不停施工。文件显示，整个综合体“整体完成度达65%”。
总统沿着新铺设的花岗岩步道继续前行，与身着荧光背心、头戴安全帽的建筑工人们一同站在刻有总统徽章的全新雕刻花岗岩停机坪上，他将这项工程比作他对中央公园沃尔曼溜冰场的翻新。他在一个即将被嵌入徽章的鹰形雕刻背面签名。
特朗普此次对在建工程的参观是他今年第二次临时邀请记者随行，凸显了基建工程在他如何看待自己的总统遗产中占据着何等核心的地位。
“我最擅长的事情之一就是建造……我热爱基建，热爱看到一切都妥善完成，”他说道，并补充说这些项目“将在我们离开很久之后依然存在”。
PolitiFact近期的一项审查发现，2026年以来，总统在公开讲话中花大量时间谈论这些基建项目——这是除了他与伊朗的对峙之外，被提及最多的话题。
特朗普还畅想了新基建项目的整体用途，届时白宫将接待外国政要进行国事访问。
“他们甚至不用走进白宫，就能在这条漂亮的新车道上下车。走下车，沿着这条步道走到那个（停机坪），他们可以在白宫外面举办鸡尾酒会等各类活动，然后再进入宴会厅，”他说。
‘Very special stone’: Trump unveils another White House construction project
2026-08-19T16:56:06.515Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/politics/trump-construction-white-house-helipad
President Donald Trump unveiled a new White House construction project Wednesday, issuing an impromptu invitation to reporters to join him on the South Lawn and tour the replacement of the White House driveway as well as progress made on his new helipad.
During the tour, an animated Trump highlighted his personal investment in the projects with painstaking attention to details theoretically far below his pay grade: the placement of stanchions, the radial cut of granite, the elimination of potholes. The tour concluded with him signing a giant slab of granite that he said would be “flipped” and laid into the helipad.
But first, he detailed another project — previously unannounced — that was already finished.
“This was always asphalt, which is very basic, not appropriate for a great house — for a great place like the White House,” Trump said over the clanging noise of construction, gesturing at the surface he was walking on. The driveway has been redone, he added, with a California-mined white granite he described as a “very special stone.”
Trump also suggested he had been involved in the decision earlier this month to disassemble progress made on his helipad.
Construction on the landing zone began shortly after his UFC fight in June, but CNN observed the dismantling of the stone weeks later. The White House has previously declined to provide an explanation for the changes, but the president said Wednesday he was unhappy with its slope.
“I felt it was too much slope. It’s a slope for the rain, but I felt it was too much slope,” Trump said, announcing that it was now “dead flat.”
Later addressing a group of workers, Trump said, “Sorry to take an extra week-and-a-half, but lifting it up was one of the best things we’ve ever done, lifting it up, right? I’m sure you didn’t like that.”
The president guided the press toward an opening in a fence around the helipad, pausing the tour to direct attention to updates to the White House facade, where he said paint had been stripped and redone.
“If you take a look at the stone, look how perfect the stone is,” he said, adding he’s “very proud to do it.”
He stopped the tour again before reaching the unfinished helipad, touting the fresh topsoil and grass.
“If you’re grass, you’re very happy,” he said.
Trump’s favorite White House project — construction on his 90,000-square-foot ballroom — was not a stop on the tour, but the president still brought it up repeatedly. His administration has taken the project to the Supreme Court, arguing the structure and state-of-the-art bunker facility that would be housed underneath is a matter of national security. Recently, he and the White House have tried to emphasize that argument by referring to the ballroom as the “military complex.”
Trump downplayed any concerns that the nation’s highest court would rule against him and potentially halt construction, saying he “can’t imagine it happening.”
Construction has been progressing rapidly on the ballroom, with a 250-person crew working 20-hour days, seven days per week, according to a court filing submitted earlier this month. The filing put the complex at “65% complete in its entirety.”
The president continued along his granite path, joining construction workers in neon vests and hard hats atop the new carved granite helipad emblazoned with the presidential seal, which he compared to his restoration of the Wollman Rink in Central Park. He signed the back of a carved image of an eagle that will soon be placed inside the seal.
Trump’s tour of the ongoing projects, his second such impromptu excursion with reporters this year, underscored how central construction is to how he views his presidential legacy.
“One thing I know how to do is build. … I love construction, I love seeing things properly taken care of,” he said, adding that the projects “will be here long after we’re gone.”
A recent review from Politifact found that in 2026, the president has spent significant time talking about those projects during public remarks — more than any other topic, except for his war with Iran.
Trump also offered a holistic vision for how the new projects would be utilized when the White House welcomes dignitaries for state visits.
“Without even having to go into the White House, they get out of the car on the beautiful new roadway. They get out of the car and they walk down this path onto that [helipad], and they can have cocktails and everything outside of the White House, and then they go into the ballroom,” he said.
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