2026-07-29T21:04:28.069Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/politics/trump-dulles-airport-renovation
距离唐纳德·特朗普总统乘坐商业航班已经过去多年。但本周三，他宣布将对华盛顿地区一座关键机场进行大规模翻新——这是他塑造美国首都周边基础设施的最新举措。
特朗普批准了杜勒斯国际机场一项价值225亿美元的大型改造计划。杜勒斯国际机场是弗吉尼亚北部的航空枢纽，有直飞50多个国家的航班。
“作为一名建筑商，这对我来说非常令人兴奋——在就任总统之前，我就建造过很多大型优质项目，而我们现在正在打造一些世界顶尖的工程，”特朗普周三在椭圆形办公室说道，当时他的办公桌前摆放着一个巨大的全新机场模型。他热情地指着规划效果图表示，这些方案是他亲自审核并批准的，并用激光笔标出了靠近主航站楼的新停车场区域。
在他的第二届任期内，这位总统经常在椭圆形办公室推出建筑和修缮提案，不仅限于白宫，还遍布全市及周边地区。
他曾试图翻新林肯纪念堂倒影池、建造一座新的凯旋门和美国英雄国家花园、修复全城各处的喷泉，并将自己的名字印在知名机构建筑上——但持久的成功寥寥无几。周三发布的一项CNN最新民调显示，尽管这些项目在华盛顿特区居民中受欢迎程度各不相同，但58%的美国人对他在华盛顿的基建项目感到不满或愤怒。
“你知道，这是一种巨大的兴奋感，”当被问及为何如此专注于改造华盛顿特区地区时，特朗普周三说道。
杜勒斯机场已经在特朗普的议事日程上数月之久。
“无论你是共和党人还是民主党人，都不想去忍受这座机场，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室说道，呼应了他在12月内阁会议上的评论，称杜勒斯机场是一座“糟糕透顶”的机场。
运营60年来，杜勒斯机场经常登上最差机场榜单，主要原因在于其最不同寻常的特色之一：所谓的旅客捷运系统，正式名称为“移动休息室”，用于在登机口和飞机之间运送乘客。
据多位熟悉该项目的消息人士透露，这项分阶段实施的翻新计划最早由CBS新闻报道，将在8至10年内完成，并永久取消旅客捷运系统。
资金将由华盛顿都会区机场管理局和航空公司承担。“这笔资金将通过225亿美元的债券筹集。联合航空将承担部分费用，但参与该项目的航空公司都将出资，”美国运输部长肖恩·达菲周三在椭圆形办公室说道。
但特朗普表示，国会仍可能发挥作用。
“这在很大程度上已经筹得资金，是的，我们可能需要国会的一些批准。但总体而言，这是两党广泛支持的，”他说道。
据联合航空透露，该项目预计将改善停车场和值机设施，更新候机楼——包括联合航空的C和D候机楼，这些候机楼于1985年作为临时设施建成——新建一条隧道以取代旅客捷运系统，并新增餐饮和休息室区域。
据白宫一名官员透露，这座由埃罗·沙里宁设计的机场主航站楼将得到保留。
达菲周三称，机场翻新工程是特朗普“让华盛顿变得安全又美丽”努力的“点睛之笔”。
“我们邀请了多名建筑师向总统展示方案，我们很幸运，他不仅抽出时间处理至关重要的事务，还运用自己的建筑专长，整合了所有设计的精华，打造出了这个方案，”他补充道。
对于这位前房地产开发商总统而言，在华盛顿地区开展基建项目不仅仅是副业——他认为这是其政治遗产的基石。
“我是一名非常优秀的建筑商。我一生中最擅长的事情就是建造，”特朗普在5月视察9万平方英尺的白宫宴会厅改造项目时告诉记者。
他的基建计划始于为椭圆形办公室镀金，这一设计风格后来延伸到了罗斯福厅。
玫瑰园已铺设石材并按照他海湖庄园露台的样式重新改造。带有讽刺意味的“总统名人步道”已安装在西柱廊沿线，步道上用特朗普的口吻撰写了历任总统的生平介绍，还新增了花岗岩铺路砖。草坪上新增了巨型旗杆和一个直升机停机坪。棕榈厅的地板和久负盛名的林肯卧室浴室都已更换为大理石材质。
在附近，特朗普正在为拉斐特广场铺设新人行道，监督新建游客中心综合体，并推动为邻近的艾森豪威尔行政办公楼涂刷白色“魔法涂料”。
他的野心并不局限于白宫。在全城各处，作为董事会主席的肯尼迪中心预计将进行全面翻新，尽管该委员会迫于联邦法官的命令不得不移除他的名字。这位总统还在监督在一处环岛上方建造巨型拱门的计划。国家购物中心沿线的雕塑新贴上了金箔，他的倒影池翻新工程耗资1400万美元，成为了一项备受争议的核心宠儿项目。
特朗普还提出了连接林肯纪念堂和波托马克河的人行步道构想，并重新启用了“美国英雄花园”计划——该计划在他第一任期时提出，后被拜登政府取消。在附近区域，他正推进将东波托马克公园的公共高尔夫球场改造为锦标赛球场的计划。
尽管特朗普在第二届任期间更多地思考自己的政治遗产，消息人士称他将众多项目视为遗产的一部分，但最新的CNN民调显示，选民可能对特朗普将注意力放在本地事务上持更怀疑态度。创纪录的73%的美国成年人表示，他没有足够关注国家最重要的问题。
CNN的亚历山德拉·斯科尔斯对本文亦有贡献。
Trump unveils another project as polling shows his DC construction is unpopular
2026-07-29T21:04:28.069Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/politics/trump-dulles-airport-renovation
It’s been many years since President Donald Trump flew commercial. But on Wednesday, he unveiled major renovations to a key Washington-area airport — his latest effort to shape infrastructure around the nation’s capital.
Trump oversaw proposals for a massive, $22.5 billion project at Dulles International Airport, the Northern Virginia air travel hub with direct flights to more than 50 countries.
“This is very exciting to me as a builder — somebody that builds lots of big, nice projects before I got here, and we’re doing some of the best in the world right now,” Trump said in the Oval Office Wednesday, seated before a large model of the newly imagined airport that covered his desk. He gestured enthusiastically at renderings of the plans that sources say he personally reviewed and approved, using a laser pointer to highlight new parking areas closer to the main terminal.
Throughout his second term, the president has often used the Oval Office to debut proposals for building and repairing — not just at the White House, but across the city and surrounding region.
He’s tried to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, build a new triumphal arch and National Garden of American Heroes, restore fountains across town and slapped his name — with limited enduring success — on prominent institutions. And while some of those projects may be more popular than others among DC residents, a 58% majority of Americans say they feel dissatisfied or angry about his construction projects in DC, according to a new CNN poll released Wednesday.
“You know, it’s a great thrill,” Trump said Wednesday when asked why he’s so focused on transforming the Washington, DC, area.
Dulles has been on Trump’s mind for months.
“Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, you don’t want to go and be subjected to this airport,” Trump said in the Oval Office, echoing his comments from a December Cabinet meeting that Dulles is a “terrible” airport.
Operational for 60 years, Dulles regularly appears on lists of the worst airports, largely due to one of its most unusual features: the so-called people movers, more formally known as “mobile lounges,” which are used to ferry passengers between gates and planes.
The phased renovation plan, which was first reported by CBS News, will be implemented over eight to 10 years and eliminate the people movers for good, according to multiple sources familiar with the project.
Funding is coming through the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and airlines. “It’s going to be bonded for $22.5 billion. United is going to partake in part of the payment, but the airlines who participate in the project are going to pay for it,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
Trump, however, suggested there could still be a role for Congress to play.
“It’s largely financed, and yeah, we need some approvals from Congress probably. But generally speaking, it’s been very bipartisan,” he said.
The project is expected to bolster parking and check-in facilities, modernize concourses — including United’s C and D concourses, which were built as a temporary facility in 1985 — create a new tunnel that will eliminate the need for the people movers and add new concessions and lounges, according to United.
The airport’s Eero Saarinen-designed main terminal is expected to be preserved, according to a White House official.
Duffy on Wednesday called the airport renovations the “cherry on top” of Trump’s efforts to “make DC safe and beautiful.”
“We we had multiple architects come in and present to the president, and we are blessed that not only does he give his time to really important matters, but he gave his building skill to take the best of all the designs and come up with this concept,” he added.
For the president, a former real estate developer, construction across the Washington area isn’t just a side project — he believes it’s the foundation of his legacy.
“I’m a really good builder. The thing I do best in life is build,” Trump told reporters on a May tour of the 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom construction project.
His efforts started with gilding the Oval Office, a design choice that crept into the Roosevelt Room.
The Rose Garden has been paved with stone and reconfigured in the image of his Mar-a-Lago patio. The tongue-in-cheek “Presidential Walk of Fame,” with biographies of his predecessors written in Trump’s voice, has been installed along the West Colonnade, plus new granite pavers. Giant new flagpoles and a helipad have been added to the lawn. And the Palm Room flooring and the storied Lincoln Bedroom bathroom have been redone in marble.
Nearby, Trump’s building new sidewalks for Lafayette Square, overseeing a new visitors’ center complex, and pushing a coat of white “magic paint” for the neighboring Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
His ambitions haven’t been limited to the White House. Across town, the Kennedy Center, where Trump is chairman of the board, is expected to undergo a sweeping renovation, even after the board was forced to remove his name to comply with a federal judge’s order. The president is also overseeing plans to place a massive arch atop a traffic circle. Sculptures along the National Mall have been newly re-embellished with gold, and his Reflecting Pool renovation — to the tune of $14 million — has become a key, albeit deeply controversial, pet project.
Trump has also floated the idea of a pedestrian promenade connecting the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River and has resurrected a plan for a “Garden of American Heroes,” which was proposed during his first term and scrapped by the Biden administration. Nearby, he’s forging ahead with plans to turn the East Potomac Park public golf course into a championship course.
While Trump has spent more time reflecting on his legacy during his second term, and sources say he sees many projects as part of that, the new CNN poll suggests voters may be more skeptical of Trump’s local focus. A record-high 73% of US adults said he hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems.
CNN’s Alexandra Skores contributed to this report.
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