# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 6, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964 "2025-02-06T18:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 39
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/768 "2025-05-05T00:27:13Z")
Trump on [Meet the Press](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/04/trump-wants-the-credit-but-not-the-blame-for-the-u-s-economy-00325501): **Kristin:** When does it become the Trump economy? **Trump:** It partially is right now, and I really mean this. I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy. > **[Meet the Press full episode – May 4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuPI1-Gp_5s%2F)** > > President Donald Trump joins Meet the Press for an exclusive and wide-ranging interview reflecting on the first 100 days of his second term and laying out hi... ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/769 "2025-05-05T00:46:48Z")
In 100 days, Trump went from ‘Everything will be cheaper,’ to ‘You will have some financial pain,’ to ‘Your kids won’t have toys for Christmas,’ to ‘I’m going to have a birthday parade that will cost $100 million.’ ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/770 "2025-05-05T01:02:26Z")
Thank you. So much this!! ^^ I’m borrowing that, @Johnny_L.A ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/771 "2025-05-05T01:29:17Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > **Trump:** It partially is right now, and I really mean this. I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy. So there is some like… hole or something through which Biden can actively sabotage the economy while sipping Mai Tais in Rehoboth Beach? Damn, Biden is powerful! I’m amazed that Trump would admit to such a shameful thing on national television! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/772 "2025-05-05T01:30:16Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I’m borrowing that, @Johnny_L.A Why not? I stole it from a meme! 😆 Full disclosure: I did edit a little. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/773 "2025-05-05T01:37:06Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > In honor of the day (May the Fourth): He’s saving Hollywood > **[Trump tariffs: US president says non-US movies to be hit with 100% levies](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr7e2z1rxyo)** > > The president blamed foreign-made movies for the American film industry's "very fast death". > **US President Donald Trump says he will hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs,** **as he ramps up trade disputes with nations around the world.** I don’t care and don’t want to try and figure out how this EO/tariff parses out (plus I’m not in the USA anymore) and I’m not sure if they count, yet Andor and Black Mirror were filmed in the UK. Truly, a bold cinematic gesture that can only help Hollywood earn a profit again. Finally, American audiences can be spared the burden of subtitles, nuance, and the haunting spectre of thought. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/774 "2025-05-05T01:40:01Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > plus I’m not in the USA anymore Brag about it, why don’tcha! ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/775 "2025-05-05T01:46:47Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Brag about it, why don’tcha! Well, glad I’m not there but the former slum-lord dictator-in-chief (thanks to **Monty** for the phrase) still lives rent-free inside my head. I just cannot keep up with the nuances of whatever executive order this one is. This will keep American movies American, else double the cost? I don’t care to read any more of his daily EO bullshit beyond the headline. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/776 "2025-05-05T01:56:19Z")
Another brilliant idea: [Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze17n02gego) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/777 "2025-05-05T01:59:03Z")
Alcatraz? Is he crazy? Poor Rowdy Roddy Piper was never the same after he got out of that place. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/778 "2025-05-05T02:00:29Z")
Ah. This is his deportation loophole for citizens. It’s a part of the US, so it’s not deportation. But the island location is remote and isolated and supposedly (almost) escape-proof. It was closed because it cost three times to operate than other prisons because of its island location. Where is Mr. “Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” when we need him? ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/779 "2025-05-05T02:15:12Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Alcatraz? Is he crazy? Crazy like a fox! Remember Trump talking about being eaten by a shark when an electric boat sinks? They can show the inmates [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEeFGVhMEM). Prisoners won’t want to escape. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/780 "2025-05-05T02:23:09Z")
I nominate him to be the first and only inmate. No phone. No internet. Just gold-colored bars and mirror-covered walls. (Fun-house mirrors are optional.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/781 "2025-05-05T02:43:04Z")
I toured Alcatraz twenty years ago. It was run-down and decaying then, and it hasn’t gotten any better. RFK ordered its closure because it cost too much to run. Reopening it would be dumb, unnecessary and hugely expensive… so of _course_ Trump wants to try. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/782 "2025-05-05T03:00:25Z")
Couple of minor problems. For one thing, none of the agencies he mentioned have anything to do with Alcatraz: it’s owned and managed by the National Park Service. For another, as @Elendil_s_Heir pointed out, it’s so deteriorated that it would cost more (and probably take more time) to “rebuild and enlarge\* it” than to build a new supermax from scratch. But “The Rock” probably resonates better in one of his three brain cells. \* I guess this includes enlarging the island itself as well. Wouldn’t surprise me if he envisions filling in San Francisco Bay. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/783 "2025-05-05T03:07:23Z")
I’m seeing on social media that a local station in Palm Beach screened Escape From Alcatraz the other night. I guess we now know where this particular brain dropping originated. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/784 "2025-05-05T03:08:55Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Wouldn’t surprise me if he envisions filling in San Francisco Bay. I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. There was a sarcastic play on the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s motto “Save the Bay”–Pave the Bay! They could build a huge causeway from Fisherman’s Wharf to Alcatraz. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/785 "2025-05-05T03:20:44Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > It was closed because it cost three times to operate than other prisons because of its island location. It also brings in about $60M a year in tourism which will have to end if it is reopened. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/786 "2025-05-05T04:32:11Z")
Nah. Just charge the inmates for room and board. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/787 "2025-05-05T04:33:57Z")
Then when they don’t pay they get evicted. If nothing else, it would absolutely help with a prison overpopulation problem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964.md?page=40)