Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
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:
Been commenting about this for YEARS! Could never find that part of the video and here you have a pic!
If it was just him, it wouldn't be that bad. Kinda like Bush Jr. The problem is that he surrounds himself with yes-men. I'm sure you've seen meetings with him and his orbit. He says something, stupid as hell, and his cult claps, stands, cheers and/or laughs like it's worthy of a Nobel. It's seriously deranged behavior. It's a cult. Except he's just grandpa sundowner everyone agrees with to get in his good graces, or a child spouting nonsense while the parents just go "that's nice dear" absent-mindedly. He's so easy to fluff.
This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea
so donvict watches public television. huh. the very same public television he wants to cut funding to...
and for entertainment purposes, not just to find 'biased' news reports to whine about in an overnight all-caps twitter tantrum.
Like a spoiled 4 year old in so many ways...
Yep, I've been saying "he isn't just a narcissist, he's narcissistic in the way a 5-year-old would be".
I'm sure there was another similar incident in the last few months when some "policy" came out of the blue, and someone connected it to something else that had just recently been on TV. But, finding something like that is nearly impossible. What do you search for, "crazy policy ideas, Trump, 2025" There are just mountains of BS to sift through.
He wasn't watching PBS... so someone else told him to do it after watching it. Probably same person trying to find more reasons to defund PBS.
Ikr, him watching pbs would be a good onion though
See, I don't know. He's been posting about cutting funding, so I could see him turning it on expecting to see a bunch of queers making out with ostriches or whatever the fuck he thinks goes on at PBS but instead got an idea. Which is kind of sweet, if you think about it. That's so PBS, they can't help but educate even if the viewer is a fascist penis wrinkle.
Lmfao whatta coincidence!
It's like a billion dollar rebuild and a multi million dollar yearly budget, why the fuck would we ever open this shithole ever again.
It lasted like 30 years specifically because sadly corroded the ever loving fuck out of everything and last I heard salt water isn't any less salty then 1969.
I'm sure he wasn't even aware of what station was airing the movie. He was flicking through the channels and saw one that was interesting.
So... You take a prison which:
And you get:
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.
I bet he plans on charging rent to the prisoners at California rates or some bullshit
Beachside property after all. Rockside.
Actually would be a cool idea, make there a combined prison-museum with luxury cells like the one Brejvik spends his time in. If it goes together with a prison reform to in general make American prisons more like Norwegian ones, would be cool.
I mean, inmates shouldn't pay for that, I just caught a thought.
It's more interesting after all, inmates can talk to tourists and not feel too isolated, but live in more comfortable conditions than their historical colleagues, and you still have a profitable museum.
Sort of a prison entertainment park. On an island. One can even have a small computing history museum with an IRIX machine there, next to a few dinosaur pics.
Yes...?
It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.
Somebody needs to just wave something shiny in front of him to distract him from this stupid idea.
Next up on truth social:
ONE OF MY SUBORDINATES JINGLED HIS KEYS IN FRONT OF ME FOR HOURS. I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS MUCH ENJOYMENT IN MY LIFE.
MAKE JINGLING KEYS GREAT AGAIN!
An put a tariff on movies so he doesn't do it again! Oh, wait...
But it is a typical Trump deal, selling vibes of "doing it the rough old way, with guns and hookers and lead paint and gasoline that makes your windows rainbow-colored".
That's what he sells. His fans know it's not achievable, they want a mess sufficient for something better to evolve, and vibes for them signify that mess. It's a bit like Shadow ideology in Babylon V.
Please get this man addicted to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I bet tinyhands would think Big-ears are the good guys
He would emulate the protagonist Ferengi race... even more than he does now.
"I am hereby placing a 100% TARIFF on transport fees for any Q visiting from the Q Continuum. As you know, one of them turned me literally orange, 'as a joke'. If this dangerous criminal is found in Federation space again, I have given out orders to immediately apprehend the Q responsible and hold him in Alcatraz Prison. The Q will then be ransomed back to the bloodthirsty murderers of the Q Continuum."
Stop letting this man watch television.
He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.
His supporters have been so crippled by centuries of inbreeding they see him as their genius messiah, literally.
Inbreeding is more likely to produce offspring, but also more likely to produce offspring with genetic defects, and marrying someone very genetically different is less likely to produce offspring, but dangers are fewer.
I mean, provided you can't find a neanderthal to marry today, the latter concern is not too important.
So both are not too bad, fertility is important sometimes. It's the natural regulation of population.
BTW, about diversity and all that ... it's good, but triggers the psychological and biological mechanisms (EDIT: reducing fertility) in the parts of population smart enough to be diverse.
So nature also regulates such disturbances. Like the Force in Star Wars. Humanity works the way that if smartasses become too smart, dumbasses would have their asses so it would all cancel out to a more even distribution.
Has he been there? Like it's fuckin old. And small. Like really small. I don't know if he can legally do that either. Since it's a state park.
Well yes but it has a cool sounding name
Simple solution.
Rename another prison alcatraz and tell Trump it's up and running.
And yet Americans elected this man for a second term, by popular vote this time. He's not the only genius there.
Every accusation is a projection.
2020 election denial is now a high school standard in Oklahoma btw.
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.
PBS should air Star Trek 24/7 then. The TNG/DS9/VOY preferably.
😬 pretty easy to side with the Cardassians for someone like Trump...
The monkey paw will curl, damn :(
Ok, so we take out DS9. But TNG on repeat for sure.
He'd get a kick outta their legal system...
By executive order Section 31 is formed. CIA director raises eyebrow in contempt.
That man has dementia.
The same PBS he wants to cut ahahaha
OK, now that's pretty funny.
Alzheimers in full bloom.
Spiced up with malignant narcissism.
I was close! I figured he'd just watched The Rock.
The story is far too complex for him in that one
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.
Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.
Good lord, no, keep him far away from California!
We all know that he doesn't watch PBS. Too educational.
Not to mention he just cut funding for it
I bet we can tie a lot of his actions to the boob tube schedule
In the first admin it was clear he was watching Fox by reading his tweets and comparing.
Tiny hands for a tiny peen
Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭
There's just no way he watches PBS documentaries
Dementia Donnie should not be running this country.
Consider how stupid Donald Trump is, then consider how stupid one would have to be to vote for him, then consider that those people are all around you, all the time.
He better not be watching PBS. Not only did he not donate, like viewers like me, he is cutting their federal funding!
This just reinforces my theory that he saw Canadian Bacon at some point last summer.
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?
thank god he didn't watch the rock on hbo
For some reason I read that as auschwitz.
Not that different for the purposes he wants.
I mean...
Sundowning…
Yeah that’ll keep government spending down.
( /s, obviously)
He watches PBS?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I propose a movie about dinosaurs released in San Diego.
Or the movie about "the bus that couldn't stop"
Nah he fell asleep watching The Rock, that’s more his style.
Sounds like he belongs in retirement home.
Sounds like he wants to renovate his retirement home.
Aren't films like this always showing somewhere?
He didn't announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.
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.
