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Trump announced Alcatraz reopening hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on PBS
(www.independent.co.uk)
Stop letting this man watch television.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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Let him watch all the television he wants. Stop letting him interact with people and things.
The last thing that America needs is another jail. They have more jails and inmates than any other country on the planet. Also it would cost much more to refurbish Alcatraz than it would to build a new jail. The orange rapist is an idiot.
thank god he didn't watch the rock on hbo
Dementia Donnie should not be running this country.
We all know that he doesn't watch PBS. Too educational.
This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea, he assumes that it is pure genius and he immediately runs with it without even thinking it through or at least educating himself on the subject first to see if it is actually a good idea or not.
This is him just moments before he famously suggested on a national press conference that shining UV light or injecting disinfectant into people's bodies could be a treatment to COVID:
Been commenting about this for YEARS! Could never find that part of the video and here you have a pic!
Like a spoiled 4 year old in so many ways...
If it was just him, it wouldn't be that bad. Kinda like Bush Jr. The problem is that he surrounds himself with yes-men. I'm sure you've seen meetings with him and his orbit. He says something, stupid as hell, and his cult claps, stands, cheers and/or laughs like it's worthy of a Nobel. It's seriously deranged behavior. It's a cult. Except he's just grandpa sundowner everyone agrees with to get in his good graces, or a child spouting nonsense while the parents just go "that's nice dear" absent-mindedly. He's so easy to fluff.
I feel we also devalue Bush jr. for the way he chose to speak to people. I feel you could call Bush a smart man, even politically savy, while still talking like a layman. However, Trump is genuinely dumb like his speech implies, and people just roll with it.
This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea
so donvict watches public television. huh. the very same public television he wants to cut funding to...
and for entertainment purposes, not just to find 'biased' news reports to whine about in an overnight all-caps twitter tantrum.
He probably just didn't know how to change the channel back to Newsmax.
He likes to free style
You see, geopolitics is like jazz...
Please get this man addicted to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
"I am hereby placing a 100% TARIFF on transport fees for any Q visiting from the Q Continuum. As you know, one of them turned me literally orange, 'as a joke'. If this dangerous criminal is found in Federation space again, I have given out orders to immediately apprehend the Q responsible and hold him in Alcatraz Prison. The Q will then be ransomed back to the bloodthirsty murderers of the Q Continuum."
He would emulate the protagonist Ferengi race... even more than he does now.
He would deport Geordi, Whorf and Data for not being white. And probably O'Brian for being Irish.
Whorf
I think I think i read that fanfic back in the 90s.... co-starring Long-Luc Dickhard and Chestly Crushher?
Lieutenant Commander Dat Ass
Ha ha irish being white! Whats next, italians? Ha ha ho ho
He’d keep Guinan around?
Trump would send Guinan back home, where she would be immediately assimilated.
What if she used her Q-fightin' powers
He wasn't watching PBS... so someone else told him to do it after watching it. Probably same person trying to find more reasons to defund PBS.
See, I don't know. He's been posting about cutting funding, so I could see him turning it on expecting to see a bunch of queers making out with ostriches or whatever the fuck he thinks goes on at PBS but instead got an idea. Which is kind of sweet, if you think about it. That's so PBS, they can't help but educate even if the viewer is a fascist penis wrinkle.
It's like a billion dollar rebuild and a multi million dollar yearly budget, why the fuck would we ever open this shithole ever again.
It lasted like 30 years specifically because sadly corroded the ever loving fuck out of everything and last I heard salt water isn't any less salty then 1969.
Ikr, him watching pbs would be a good onion though
Lmfao whatta coincidence!
That man has dementia.
Sounds like he belongs in retirement home.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
For some reason I read that as auschwitz.
I mean...
Not that different for the purposes he wants.
I was close! I figured he'd just watched The Rock.
The story is far too complex for him in that one
OK, now that's pretty funny.
I bet we can tie a lot of his actions to the boob tube schedule
In the first admin it was clear he was watching Fox by reading his tweets and comparing.
Tiny hands for a tiny peen
Yeah that’ll keep government spending down.
( /s, obviously)
Nah he fell asleep watching The Rock, that’s more his style.