Prisoner #1 in a New Alcatraz Should Be Trump Himself

Another hare-brained, performative distraction announcement from dear leader.  Fresh off the heels of insulting the 1.4 billion Catholics in the world by mocking the Pope only days after Pope Francis died, this latest idiocy of DonOld's is a doozy.

Let's get real here.  There are a shitload of valid reasons that Alcatraz prison was closed down over 60 years ago and transformed into a museum and tourist attraction, and they all have to do with logistics and wastefully spending a whole lot of taxpayer money.

There are already more than 50 state and federal 'supermax' level correctional facilities in this country, so it begs the question as to why the orange buffoon chose Alcatraz as the site for a new 'supermax' prison?  Did the demented old mobster watch a TV show or movie about Alcatraz recently which triggered his feeble brain to come up with this cartoonish plan?

Link: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5387239/trump-alcatraz-reopen

"Alcatraz was shuttered "because the institution was too expensive to continue operating," according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It said operating the island prison was nearly three times more expensive than any other federal prison at the time.

"This isolation meant that everything (food, supplies, water, fuel...) had to be brought to Alcatraz by boat," the bureau says. "For example, the island had no source of fresh water, so nearly one million gallons of water had to be barged to the island each week."

If the Trump administration tries to rebuild a prison on the island, historian Jolene Babyak says it will need to solve long-running infrastructure challenges."

Can we say, "taxpayer boondoggle?"  Say it loud.  Say it clear.  Because that is literally what it would be for them to try and resurrect the crumbling, outdated, outmoded, hoary old edifice of Alcatraz and make it a correctional facility worthy of the modern 'supermax' designation.  It would cost hundreds of millions and we all know that after they blow the public's money on it, with a lot of 'kickbacks' going on to DonOld and friends no doubt, the place would become obsolete again the minute Mango Mussolini croaked or left office.

Let's face reality here.  Drumpf is essentially issuing this painfully dumb, preposterous order to distract from the looming economic chaos and deep misery that will be caused by his very own ill-advised, disastrous trade war against half the world, a trade war that he started. He knows what damage he has caused.  He knows that the consequences of that damage are imminent.  Stupid announcements like this are just red meat that he is throwing to the credulous rubes who continue to support and enable him, to keep them riled up before the economic hurt hammer falls upon on their own stupid heads.

Ffs, though - are there truly no humans of courage remaining anywhere in the ranks of the Republican party that will at long last stand up to this crackbrained POTUS and just tell him NO! for once?

 

 

---TFG