Critics pounce over push to rename Dulles terminal after Trump

Long before he first ran for president — which was in 2000 with a short-lived Reform Party campaign — Donald Trump made a point of putting his name on buildings, from Trump Tower in Manhattan to the Trump Taj Mahal and other hotels and casinos in Atlantic City. During his second president, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has been renamed the John F. Kennedy and Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts. And now, according to Fast Company, architecture firms are floating ideas for a new terminal at D.C.'s Dulles International Airport that would be named after Trump.

Fast Company's Hunter Schwarz, in an article published on January 29, reports, "In December 2025, the Department of Transportation (DOT) put out a call for design concepts for new terminals and concourses at Washington Dulles International Airport…. The agency said it was looking for proposals to either replace the airport's existing main terminal and satellite concourses or build upon them… A number of firms submitted proposals, including Ferrovial, Phoenix Infrastructure Group, and Alvarez & Marshal Infrastructure and Capital Projects."

Schwarz adds, "The submission from Bermello Ajamil & Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects included architectural renderings with a prominent feature that appears to be custom designed for a president who is fond of putting his name on things. The firms' proposed terminal design would boast a 'grand arch' made of a transparent facade and lettering that reads 'Donald J. Trump Terminal.' In some renderings, the name is written out in Trajan, a serif font used by the Trump Organization."

The proposal to name a Dulles Airport terminal after Trump is drawing a lot of reactions on X, formerly Twitter.

Philip Oldfield, director of the architecture program at Australia's University of New South Wales, Sydney, tweeted, "'Make Airports Great Again.' That's what Zaha Hadid Architects promise (they really said it!) with their design of the ‘Donald J Trump Terminal’ at Washington International Airport[.] Desperate much?"

San Francisco-based architectural designer Kepa Askenasy commented, "Lame."

Journalist Edward Russell noted that "most of" the terminal would be turned into a "ceremonial space." And he also pointed out that one estimated cost for the project is "up to $45 billion."

Aden Yacobi, president of the Penn Transportation Club, tweeted, "What is the rationale for needing an entirely new terminal and spending money on that vs other endeavors? I’ve flown out of Dulles a few times and never experienced long lines at check-in or security, albeit I’m not sure if I’ve flown out during peak times."

Read Hunter Schwarz's full article for Fast Company at this link.

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