Excessive prison: Trump raves about Alcatraz again – and of wild animals

US President Donald Trump has underpinned his plans for reopening the notorious Alcatraz prison. “We will deal with the renovation and reconstruction of the famous Alcatraz prison, which is high in the bay, surrounded by sharks!”, The Republican announced on the Truth Social Platform.

The conceptual work started six months ago and there are various prison construction companies that are interested in working together. “It’s a little early, but promising!” He wrote.

From 1934 to 1963 Alcatraz was the most feared prison in the United States. The rock island “The Rock” was considered to be a breakout – and as a ban on the ban on the “worst of the worst”. Today the island is a museum and as a breeding ground for many birds.

New detention center in the middle of the swamp

Trump had visited a new detention center in the US state of Florida on Tuesday. According to the white house, thousands of migrants that are to be deported can be accommodated in the prison known as the “Alligator Alcatraz”. The facility is located in the heart of Everglades – the largest subtropical wilderness of the United States.

Trump-as with his idea for a new Alcatraz-also thought at the Florida prison, loudly about wild animals: If you want to flee, you have to learn to run away right in front of alligators, he said with a wink on request-and painted a zigzag pattern in the air: “Do not go straight out. Run your chances by about one percent.”

After his visit, the White House on Platform X shared a picture that apparently created with AI, on which the US President can be seen with three alligators, wearing the cap with the inscription “ICE”. This is the authority, which is responsible for the arrest and deportation of migrants in the United States.

Trump corrects reporters for false reptiles

When he visited Florida, a reporter addressed a statement from his first term that the Republican could also imagine the use of alligators in the Rio Grande border river in Mexico-many people illegally come to the USA and sometimes accept great danger.

Trump now corrected the reporter and explained that he spoke of alligators at the time, but of crocodiles. “They are still a step over it,” said Trump. At that time that was “meant as a joke”, he said. “But many people liked it and many people think we should do it.”