Alcatraz is, I would say, the ultimate right. Alcatraz. Sing. Sing and Alcatraz the movies. But, it's right now a museum. Believe it or not, a lot of people go there. So strange. [00:00:15] Donald Trump revealing that he just learned that Alcatraz is a museum. Trump was questioned by reporters yesterday following his order to reopen Alcatraz. As a reminder, Alcatraz is currently a national park. It has been preserved as a museum. You can do a tour for, I don't know, roughly 50 bucks if you're interested. [00:00:34] We're going to get to the rest of Trump's nonsense answer in just a moment. It really is so strange. But Jen, do you think Trump knew what Alcatraz was before he launched his big idea? No idea. In fact, they're going to say some things here that are demonstrably not true. [00:00:50] If you've ever been to Alcatraz. My favorite part of this story is how Trump came up with the idea in the first place. That's hilarious. We're asking a poll on whether they're actually going to do it and reopen Alcatraz. I'll vote right now. No, they're not going to do it. [00:01:06] It's way too expensive. But by the way, here's one other thing we should talk about. Like, even though it's clownish, is this wrong strategy? I don't think so. And Harry Enten agrees with me. So it's a twist. It's like it doesn't make sense. It's the wrong policy. [00:01:23] How he got it was hilarious, but it could still work for him. So let's give you, the rest of the story. All right. Let's look at the rest of his rambling answers now. It housed the most violent criminals in the world, and nobody ever escaped. [00:01:39] One person almost got there, but they, as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up. And it was a lot of shark bites, a lot of lot of problems. Nobody's ever escaped from Alcatraz and just represented something, [00:01:56] strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country, but I think it represents something. Right now. It's, a big Hulk that's sitting there rusting and rotting. Very, You look at it, it's sort of a you saw that picture that was put out. [00:02:12] It's sort of amazing, but it sort of represents something that's both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable week. It's got a lot of it's got a lot of qualities that are interesting. [00:02:27] He does love a good adjective for 20. That answer, though, has sparked concern about his cognitive health. The president is he is he going to be okay or is it too late? Speculation also of where he got this idea. Many people said Trump got the idea of reopening Alcatraz from TV, [00:02:46] pointing out that escape from Alcatraz had been shown on television in South Florida Saturday night, including in West Palm Beach, where Trump spent the evening at his Mar a Lago resort. Now, if the president plans actually do take off, [00:03:03] it's going to cost a lot of money. Pam Bondi claims reopening Alcatraz will lead to cost savings. Yeah. President suggested over the weekend maybe rebuild and reopen Alcatraz. Put him there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean someplace. [00:03:19] I'm all for that. I'm all for that. And I think it will be a cost savings. We'll have specially trained guards. They'll be in isolation, they won't be able to run their businesses. And it sends a very strong message that if you do this, you are going to be out of our society forever. [00:03:36] That is a lie. Just another one, but a big one. Alcatraz closed in 1963 because it was too expensive to operate. This couldn't be sustained anymore. Federal Bureau of Prisons, a bureau within Bondi's Department of Justice, states on their website. [00:03:52] On March 21st, 1963, USP Alcatraz closed after 29 years of operation. The institution was too expensive to continue operating. Estimated 3 to 5 million was needed just for restoration and maintenance work to keep the prison open. [00:04:08] That figure did not include daily operating costs. Alcatraz was nearly three times more expensive to operate than any other federal prison. Major expense that was caused by the physical isolation of the island. The exact reason islands have been used as prison throughout history. [00:04:27] This isolation meant that everything food, supplies, water, fuel had to be brought to Alcatraz by boat. Now Alcatraz has no fresh water. It would need to be shipped to the island. Does that sound like cost savings to you? [00:04:42] J. No, but this is classic Trump. First, the hilarious part, right? No one has escaped except one guy with a lot of shark bites on his clothes. I think that's from the movie. Three people have escaped from Alcatraz. [00:04:59] So he watches the movie Alcatraz. I got it, I got it. We put him on Alcatraz, and then that's why in the second, so that he says that at night after he watches the movie, right. Then he does that press conference we showed you. He's like, not a lot of people know this, but it's now, it's now a museum [00:05:17] know a lot of people know that. Yeah. We knew I knew it wasn't a prison anymore for a long, long time. If you've ever been to San Francisco, everybody says, hey, there's Alcatraz. Of course, it's not a prison anymore. It's a museum. You can go there. Okay, but he doesn't know anything, and then he just says it. [00:05:34] But the problem is, he's the president of the United States. So you're like, okay, Mr. President, it's super old. To convert it into a functional prison would cost a fortune. We wouldn't save any money. So that's like the Pam Bonnie's of the world. It's so embarrassing. She knows they're not going to reopen it. [00:05:51] There's no way they're going to reopen it. It makes no sense. It costs way too much. Right? But she's like, I think we will, and I think we're going to save money. I think we I'm like, all right, man. You just it's like nonstop self-humiliation. So go for it. [00:06:08] Trump has turned into, well, let's be honest, someone who's a little bit older and and I get it. And it happens to everybody. And everybody has a story like this from their parents. It happened to my mom the other day. She called me in a panic, thought that George Clooney had died because she saw something online where they, you know, said Clooney had died. [00:06:26] And I was like, no, George Clooney didn't die. But it was on TV. I know, but you could put anything on TV now. Okay, like that doesn't mean anything. It's just on your TV set. And that's how Trump is, like, just saw escape from Alcatraz. There's the shark bites. But other than that, nobody escapes. [00:06:42] We should put people back in. Oh, yeah. Hey. Jesus Christ, man, it's it's very strong, but also miserably weak. It's horrible, but beautiful. Okay. What are you talking about? Okay, but having said all that, Sharon, it's. [00:06:59] I think it's going to play well for him. Why? Because his strength is at least perceived. Strength is anti-crime. And so the more he yells and screams about Alcatraz. A lot of people have seen that movie and it's going to get into their heads. Everybody's heard of Alcatraz and sing. Sing! [00:07:16] As he mentioned. So especially and older people vote more so they might be like, yeah, he's getting tough on crime. They're not going to follow up to see if they really reopen Alcatraz. They're not going to follow up to see if it costs more or less. - So this one probably plays well for him. - Okay. [00:07:34] I'm just can't get over Roger Goodell NFL commissioner space as Trump was just I mean he couldn't wait to get out of there. He was scared he was going to be asked about it. Let's talk about Stephen Miller on Fox News. He went on Fox Laura Ingraham Show Monday where he elaborated [00:07:49] on Trump's plan for Alcatraz. It's real. Alcatraz was built at a time when this country was strong and knew how to take care of villains and monsters. There are people in this country, as President Trump has said, who will do nothing with their lives but rape, maim, and murder. [00:08:08] They cannot be rehabilitated. They cannot be saved. They cannot be coached in some better way of living. They are always going to hurt. They're always going to steal. They're always going to attack. And we need a place in this country where we can send people to visually demonstrate their total separation from society, [00:08:25] the fact that they're not going to live among us and will never live among us. It is so clear why Stephen Miller and the president are so close. Trump reposted Miller's comments in a post on Truth Social. President Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz Stephen Miller [00:08:42] There are people in this country. As President Trump has said, who will do nothing with their lives but rape, maim and murder. They cannot be rehabilitated. On and on. But while Trump's approval rating has tanked, he still continues to poll well with his handling of crime. [00:08:58] Harry Enten points that out. All right. Net approval rating, handling crime. What do we have here? We have a positive rating for Donald Trump even in the most recent polling. Look at that. At plus two points. Far better than Joe Biden, who was so far underwater. [00:09:14] My goodness, he was setting records at -26 points. You rarely ever see it. So Donald Trump ran in part on law and order. It was one of the reasons that he got elected. And at this particular point, Americans like what they're hearing from him on the issue of crime. And you see this right here with a plus two net approval rating, far better than [00:09:32] Joe Biden left office with back in 2024. So when you hear Donald Trump talking about stuff like Alcatraz, yes, I know it's late night fodder for a lot of different folks, but what it actually speaks to is Donald Trump focusing the American people's attention on an issue in which they actually do like what he's doing. [00:09:48] And you see it here with a net positive approval rating of plus two points, which again, is 15 points higher than what we saw for Donald Trump in term numero uno. So maybe he is focusing jank. I, I don't think it's any surprise when you're disappearing people left and right [00:10:04] and claiming you want to lock everyone up. And now talking about, you know, you're making policy off of an old movie, an old prison movie that people like what he's doing. As you you started to elaborate on when it comes to crime. Yeah. Look, politics is about optics. Whether we like it or not. [00:10:21] It doesn't matter. It's about optics. So why was Biden at -26? Biden? One of the bills he's most famous for was the crime bill, which was draconian. It was back in the 1990s, and he was known for locking people up, but he was at -26. [00:10:40] Why? Because some of the loudest voices on our side, honestly, are also radicals. They're radicals in a different way. But they were going around saying, no, there is no crime increase between 2019 and 2023, but there was a significant crime increase between 2019 and 2023. [00:10:58] Now remember 2019 it starts under Trump, right? But it continues mainly under Biden. And by the way, I talked to Larry Krasner the other night, the Da from Philadelphia. And crime has gone down significantly in big cities like Philadelphia in 2024 and 2025. [00:11:14] But it was real and our side kept saying, no, there is no crime. There are no gangs. They are not in Colorado. They're not taking over any apartments. They're not doing anything wrong. I'm like, guys, what are you doing? No, no. We want to protect innocent people. [00:11:29] There's no need to, like, pretend that crime doesn't exist or there's, you know, just all sorts of nonsense talk. And. And then that got put on the Democratic Party, even though Joe Biden didn't say any of that, he winds up at -26 because people actually see the crime. [00:11:45] They see some Democrats denying it, and then they get mad. And that leads to a -26. Trump comes along and goes Alcatraz. And people go, oh, I remember Alcatraz, I like that. Oh, he's locking up these criminals and they're all rapists and mamers, right. [00:12:02] And so then they go and say that Trump is good on crime. Now is that really true? No. You know who's a well-known criminal, Donald Trump. He's literally a convicted felon. Right. Lock your own. And what did he do? First he let out all the criminals from January 6th. [00:12:18] Then what did he do next? Which is even, arguably even more egregious. He started letting out almost every white collar criminal. Oh, you got a fraud charge. Okay, give me money to my campaign. You're free to go. You give me money to my meme coin, you're free to go. You give me money to this, that and the other thing. And he released all. He's like, I've said this before, like, you know, Batman and Bane. [00:12:36] He's like the bane for white collar criminals. Gotham is yours. Okay. If you've committed fraud, he's going to pardon you. Okay. So it's so ironic. But last thing is, since they're doing terribly in the polling these days [00:12:52] and they're doing bad on the economy, what are they going back to? They're going back to the well. Fear. Fear. Fear. The rapists and the mamers. They're maiming everyone. We got to put them in Alcatraz. It's so tired. Please, America, wake up to this nonsense game that they're playing. [00:13:10] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. 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