By then, the salt water had corroded the steel and decayed the concrete severely, some places were so decayed they were closed off for safety reasons. The birds had even taken over some of it and would attack anyone going into their turf.
Alcatraz would need complete ground up rebuilding to make it any more than a museum.
Trump likes to talk this way to shake things up and rattle people, he knows there is no way Congress will go along with this.
He likes to get conversations started
Even if they don’t pan out.
Who would have thought we’d have Alligator Alcatraz just 6 weeks ago?
Reopening Alcatraz would be too expensive.
It would be a lot cheaper to emulate Joe Arpiro’s model of a tent city in the Arizona desert. Maybe on one of the Aleutian islands in Alaska.