Trump Previews Dulles Airport Revamp Featuring 'Largest' Parking Garage In The World

[0:00] thank you very much everybody this is very exciting to me as a builder somebody that [0:05] builds lots of big nice projects before i got here and we're doing some of the best in the [0:11] world right now this is all about the dullest airport remodeling it's considered one of the [0:17] worst airports anywhere in the world we're going to make it maybe the best with some hard work [0:22] and some good thought process but thank you for being here as we unveil exciting plans for a major [0:29] and long overdue renovation and reconstruction of washington's [0:33] really horribly thought of dullest international airport i want to thank secretary of transportation [0:40] sean duffy's fantastic he's doing a great job doing a great job including having to do with [0:45] the safety of airlines and getting in with the control towers and all new equipment that we'll [0:50] be ordering in the not too distant future so that we'll have we'll go from again one of the worst [0:57] countries in the world for that and we'll end up being one of the best countries in the world that's [1:01] automation uh having to do with landing stakeoffs and safety but for his leadership at this important [1:08] project and that's the dullest project thanks as well to the ceo of united airlines scott kirby thank [1:14] you scott ceo of the metropolitan washington airports authority jack potter thank you jack and [1:21] we have uh we've developed a great relationship with him we're going to make this something special [1:27] as well as a member of the airport's authority board of directors trent morse thank you trent thank [1:33] you very much uh dullest airport is the primary international gateway to our nation's capital which [1:39] is now one of the safest cities in the country it's one of the hottest cities in the country we are the [1:44] hottest country in the world but uh our nation's capital has made tremendous improvements in the last [1:51] year and a half since we got here uh crime is down by 84 percent we've removed 8 000 almost 8 000 [2:00] career-hardened criminals and uh amazing statistic two percent of the people caused 91 of the crime [2:08] and we can handle that really easily so they've done i just want to thank our great national guard and [2:15] the metropolitan police and others that worked with us but uh the job in washington everyone's talking [2:21] about i can also say and uh if you look at memphis tennessee where crime was rampant and it's down [2:27] now 71 percent and it'll go down still further and uh louisiana new orleans the governor called he said we [2:36] need help and we gave him help and the crime is down 72 percent and they just finished mardi gras and [2:42] they said it was the safest mardi gras on record so we have uh a modernization of dollars that's sorely needed [2:49] last year's jd power ranked dulles uh 23 out of seven 27 that's a very bad ranking large airports [2:58] nationwide so it ranks at the bottom of the list just about the bottom of the list after an extensive [3:04] review of more than 30 proposals with the top architects anywhere in the world and i was involved [3:09] with sean and with a lot of other people actually but scott was very much involved i can tell you [3:15] but we uh are announcing plans to add more than five million square feet of new or renovated space [3:21] we'll replace the current c and d concourses which are basic disasters all the while preserving the [3:27] iconic original terminal that is one of the great architects of the world did the original terminal and [3:33] it was uh very very important that it be left that's one of the reasons it was both an asset and a [3:39] liability the liability is that nobody wanted to build anything near it uh and people had to walk [3:45] crazy distances and uh it's no good not acceptable so we've addressed it all and we have a plan that's [3:52] going to be phenomenal but we're going to replace the c and d concourses and preserve the iconic original [3:58] terminal that first made the airport an architectural landmark so it's uh going to be something you can [4:05] sort of see a little example of it right here that's your front on the other side of the street [4:10] we're building a massive uh nine story eight story tensor we're not sure yet but we're building a [4:17] garage that a parking garage that will be right next to the terminal you'll walk right across the street [4:23] and you'll have a glass bridge a number of glass bridges that will go right into the terminal [4:27] right now you have to walk so far you have to walk blocks and blocks to get to your [4:31] to get to the terminal and we have an empty site right directly across the street that nobody wanted [4:37] to tinker with which was crazy so we're going to have a magnificent garage what would you say sean [4:42] how many uh how many 30 30 32 000 parking spaces 32 000 it'll be actually the largest garage in the [4:49] world 32 000 is big mostly above ground we don't like down people don't like going down underneath [4:56] mostly above ground it'll be beautiful but a central walking tunnel and a new [5:01] air train connections will provide travelers with easy easy options really it's it's an impossible [5:07] airport you get off a bus you go into a train you get from a train you get onto another bus [5:11] it's a worse airport this plan also includes expanded options for parking modern check-in areas [5:18] more efficient security screenings hotels etc etc they have a beautiful hotel right on the property but [5:24] further away so that we can give the good location frankly the best location to parking so people [5:30] literally will be able to park their car and walk 15 yards and they'll be in the terminal [5:35] in addition many of the new restaurants and shops will be added including plans for one of the largest [5:40] united polaris lounges anywhere in the world and it'll be a beautiful level of luxury this transformation [5:47] is another step in our ongoing efforts to make washington dc safe and beautiful again [5:53] the safety aspects both in terms of the airlines and in terms of crime [5:58] are unparalleled for what we're doing for years the united states has watched other major cities around [6:04] the globe welcome travelers with grand and modern airports yet last the last major airport built in [6:10] the united states was denver in 1995 and it hasn't gotten very great reviews and that's more than 30 years [6:18] ago so we're doing something with dulles that's going to make it uh i think the top maybe the top [6:23] anywhere in the world and by the way palm beach is going to be one of the top too palm beach is going [6:27] to be incredible what the plans are the people joe and all the people working in palm beach that have [6:33] such meg that have done such an incredible job that's going to be an unbelievable airport very shortly [6:40] so it's time to ensure that the united states has the greatest airports anywhere in the world and we're [6:44] starting right here with the capital city and uh you can see just before sean goes up if you take a [6:51] look this is this is only showing the terminal in one rung but you have numerous of them you have here [6:57] here here and you have a spine coming here's your main entrance you have a spine coming right through [7:04] the building into these massive uh massive ports now the planes won't have to be bothered because we [7:11] drop down a little bit and our walkway is underneath uh we have systems walking systems that go very [7:18] quickly or you can walk because it's very close but this is it so you enter here you have a parking [7:24] garage which will be built right here this whole thing is parking garage 32 probably 32 000 cars that'll [7:32] be that'll be a world record and very convenient and then you'll have glass tunnels that go into the [7:39] airport right from here so you're you'll be one story above this road stays beautified and stays [7:46] we keep this this is your landmark this is all new this is your first tunnel and then you drop down from [7:52] there on and so that when you have the planes will be able to go right across without having to go back [7:59] make turns or anything else it's going to be amazing it'll be one of the largest airports anywhere in [8:03] the world and uh i think it'll be actually one of the most efficient and the best so uh i'd like to [8:09] ask uh secretary duffy to say a few words and then jack potter and i'd like to welcome a very great [8:16] gentleman to our midst uh jensen wong who's here someplace and he's uh if we can do with an airport [8:23] like he does with chips it'll be the greatest airport anywhere in the world he looks at this problem as [8:28] being a very simple he looks at this as being a very simple problem to solve because his chips are [8:34] a little bit more complicated but uh it's important that he's able to travel nicely along with everybody [8:39] else and right now this is not a very good airport we're going to make it a great airport uh sean please