Trump pushes to reopen Alcatraz, but Pelosi and Newsom dismiss it as a 'distraction'

Despite President Donald Trump's medication confirming that a program to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz is already underway, San Francisco politicians are dismissing it arsenic an unserious "distraction."

"From Day One, the Trump Administration has made wide that it volition nary longer tolerate the unsafe and deranged serial offenders who wreak bloodshed and mayhem successful American communities," White House main lawman property caput Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

"At President Trump’s direction, Attorney General Bondi, Secretary Burgum, and different medication leaders person already begun identifying indispensable steps to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz and Make America Safe Again."

As the Trump medication takes its archetypal steps to unfastened the infamous Alcatraz, California politicians Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Daniel Lurie hold the program is "not a superior one."

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President Donald Trump has directed the medication to rebuild Alcatraz bigger and reopen it to location the astir convulsive criminals. (Credit: iStock | Getty Images)

"Looks similar it’s distraction time again successful Washington, D.C.," a Newsom spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

"Alcatraz closed arsenic a national penitentiary much than sixty years ago. It is present a precise fashionable nationalist parkland and large tourer attraction. The president’s connection is not a superior one," Pelosi said connected societal media connected Sunday. 

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"I deliberation Speaker Emerita Pelosi said it close astir Alcatraz. This is not a superior proposal," Lurie said successful a statement shared with Fox News Digital. 

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rips up President Donald Trump's State of the Union code during his archetypal term. The San Franciscan said Trump's Alcatraz program is "not a superior proposal." (Getty Images)

Alcatraz has worn galore hats successful its history, including arsenic a subject prison, national prison, Civil War fortress, vertebrate sanctuary, the archetypal West Coast lighthouse and the birthplace of the American Indian Red Power movement, according to the National Park Service. Alcatraz is astir renowned for lodging national inmates, including notorious gangster Al Capone – whom Trump himself often evoked connected the run trail.

"I've been indicted much than Al Capone," Trump often remarked portion campaigning for president successful 2024 astatine his "Make America Great Again" rallies, referring to his 34-count felony condemnation for falsifying concern records. Capone was indicted connected astatine slightest 23 counts of national income taxation evasion. 

Alcatraz is simply a staple tourer attraction successful San Francisco, attracting 1.2 cardinal visitors a year. As portion of San Francisco's National Park Service, exhibits see an exploration of the island's past arsenic a subject situation and national penitentiary, portion besides sharing penetration into its 19-month concern by Native Americans protesting the U.S. government's Termination Policy, which aimed to extremity national supervision implicit American Indian tribes.

However, Trump has his ain program for Alcatraz, announcing connected Truth Social connected Sunday that helium wants to "REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!"

Then-former President Donald Trump speaks during a run rally astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City connected Oct. 27, 2024. Trump often said connected the run way that helium has been indicted much than Al Capone. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

"For excessively long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repetition Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who volition ne'er lend thing different than Misery and Suffering. When we were a much superior Nation, successful times past, we did not hesitate to fastener up the astir unsafe criminals, and support them acold distant from anyone they could harm. That’s the mode it’s expected to be. No longer volition we tolerate these Serial Offenders who dispersed filth, bloodshed, and mayhem connected our streets," Trump said. 

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"That is why, today, I americium directing the Bureau of Prisons, unneurotic with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to location America’s astir ruthless and convulsive Offenders. We volition nary longer beryllium held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are acrophobic to bash their occupation and let america to region criminals, who came into our Country illegally. The reopening of ALCATRAZ volition service arsenic a awesome of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We volition MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"