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 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.

Stop letting this man watch television.

He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

PBS should air Star Trek 24/7 then. The TNG/DS9/VOY preferably.

There's just no way he watches PBS documentaries

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.

And yet Americans elected this man for a second term, by popular vote this time. He's not the only genius there.

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.

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.

watches a movie about the most famous prison escape ever

thinks it would be good to open said prison

Alzheimers in full bloom.

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!

The same PBS he wants to cut ahahaha

That man has dementia.

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.

We all know that he doesn't watch PBS. Too educational.

This man has no brain. There's a deranged parrot in there...

Dementia Donnie should not be running this country.

Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭

I bet we can tie a lot of his actions to the boob tube schedule

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?