Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened
This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea, he assumes that it is pure genius and he immediately runs with it without even thinking it through or at least educating himself on the subject first to see if it is actually a good idea or not.
This is him just moments before he famously suggested on a national press conference that shining UV light or injecting disinfectant into people's bodies could be a treatment to COVID:
So... You take a prison which:
- Generates $60M yearly from being currently a museum;
- Needs serious rebuilding and modernization to even function at all;
- Needs a way to be supplied with safe water, plus constant deliveries of all other necessities, likely by boat.
And you get:
- A prison which generates little to no revenue, while needing funds to be kept functioning.
- Only has its name and somber history going in its favor, because "prisoners should be afraid of the historic haunted prison".
Yes. Brilliant idea, truly a Trump deal in all its glory, as we get to see how the casino-bankrupter's mind works. Hopefully by the time the prison is ready Trump and his cronies get to be the first "tenants". And whoever comes next declares the prison closed again and leaves them rotting there.
He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.
Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.
Alcatraz was a ridiculously expensive prison. That is why it closed down. Meanwhile as a museum it is actually generating millions of dollars every year in revenue.
The last thing that America needs is another jail. They have more jails and inmates than any other country on the planet. Also it would cost much more to refurbish Alcatraz than it would to build a new jail. The orange rapist is an idiot.
The good thing about this is that everyone who saw the rock movie knows the timing for the boiler room doors so they can easily escape
He watches PBS?
He better not be watching PBS. Not only did he not donate, like viewers like me, he is cutting their federal funding!
That man has dementia.
The same PBS he wants to cut ahahaha
When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals
I don't know, SOAD radicalized me when I was a teenager and I would say that this is bullshit from a criminological point of view.
I was close! I figured he'd just watched The Rock.
Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭
Wasn't that place at least as famous for successful escapes as it was for being a tough and scary place of punishment? If you're whole bag is turning back the clock to a time you thought was tougher, more punitive and therefore somehow more effective at deterrence and your decisions are more cultural than rational; shouldn't you pick somewhere not famous specifically for failing at it's entire purpose of existence?
This just reinforces my theory that he saw Canadian Bacon at some point last summer.
thank god he didn't watch the rock on hbo
Unrelated but his stupid ass grin pmo so fucking much. Like Nigel Farage's but worse.
Yeah that’ll keep government spending down.
( /s, obviously)
He doesn't want it rebuilt or modernized in any way. The more medieval the better. A spot to dump undesirables and forget them.
Trump announces a new King's decree that toilets shall now be 75% larger after trying to fit his fat fucking ass on a regular toilet.
Sundowning…
For some reason I read that as auschwitz.
Nah he fell asleep watching The Rock, that’s more his style.
I genuinely want somebody who thinks this is a good idea to explain to me why this is better than building a new maximum security prison on the mainland.
