US President Donald Trump is seeking $152m (£115m) to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as part of his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year.
Located near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the site, also known as The Rock, was once regarded as one of America’s most notorious prisons, but has served as a tourist attraction in recent years.
The budget request is seeking money “to rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility”, with funds covering the first year of costs.
The plan has been met with scepticism by a number of politicians in California, with questions raised about the final cost of the project and the challenges of running Alcatraz as an active prison.
The maximum security facility was closed in 1963. As a tourist site, it is currently run by the National Park Service.
Only on the condition that it’s only used to imprison him, the members of his administrations, and the architects at organizations like the heritage foundation, and then I’ll even chip in some of my own money.
And that it continue to be used as a tourist site, so people can go there and look at him and the other prisoners there like zoo animals.
Look at? You get to piss on them from above.
One more condition.
The tourists have access to a button that injects Trump with a tiny, survivable dose of the nerve gas from The Rock.
Wouldn’t that just get pushed until he dies anyway, like that Black Mirror episode where they torture the uploaded consciousness of a man for entertainment?
Yes, that’s the hope.
Like yeah, you’d have to have some limiter on it so that it wouldn’t just kill him quickly, but yes, the goal is absolutely to put him through as much excruciating pain as possible, in public.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
It could be his own Elba. I would be willing to chip in for that while we eradicate Trumpists from government.
Can the gift shop do souvenirs to order? Like if I wanted one of his tiny fingers from his tiny hands?
Will they accept foreign donations?
They’re been taking foreign gifts for plenty of other things, so I don’t see why not.