SAN FRANCISCO—In a July 1 Truth Social post, President Donald Trump talked about the current status of his plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a maximum-security prison, saying that “conceptual work started six months ago.”
He said that “because of the Violence and Criminality” he’s seen resulting from the open border policy of the Biden administration and the flood of illegal immigrants, he “wanted something representative to show how we fight back.”
“And then, it happened, I saw a picture of ALCATRAZ looking so foreboding, and I said, ‘We’re going to look into renovating and rebuilding the famous ALCATRAZ Prison sitting high on the Bay, surrounded by sharks. What a symbol it is, and will be!’” the president wrote in the post….