A very Napoleonic fate for him. Perhaps cooler than he deserves.
As a bonus, the Secret Service can cut costs by just having one intern hanging out at the gate as “protection”, the “very stable genius” could not escape himself out of a paper bag with an Exacto knife and a pair of scissors.
The intern could also work the ticket desk, because normal tourism to the island could burgeon with people lining up to point and laugh.
Another stupid idea by the dumbest asshole to ever hold the office. Alcatraz would have to be completely razed and rebuilt at a staggering cost.
He could plod around by himself like Rudolf Hess at Spandau until the syph blessedly takes him.
After reading the first quote, I was going to suggest ‘A very Hess-ian fate for him.’ But you beat me to it by an hour.
The island was named after the gannets that probably populated the island first. If we can get His Rumpness as the solitary inhabitant, we could re-name it Isla Melanoma after his T-Ball Trophy wife. He’d like that, I’m sure.
I’m sure he’d prefer it be named after him.
I’m surprised he hasn’t (to my knowledge) floated the idea of leveling the island and developing it. Doesn’t it have kick-ass views of San Francisco?
Introducing TRUMP PALACE GOLDEN GATE!!
Part of the appeal of the place was that guests at the property could (when assisted) leave the exercise yard to go back to their rooms, and see beautiful SF right there – so close, and yet so far.
Uh, cells at Alcatraz don’t have windows for reasons I presume are obvious, so nobody was looking at SF from their “rooms”.
My description of the site was unclear, I suppose. There are public tours available. The exercise yard is surrounded by a wall, but the path back to the cells goes through a gate in the wall. For a short distance, the walk goes directly along the shore of the island. The prisoners are well guarded at the time, of course. The water appears calm, but the currents are said to be fierce regardless. The view is heartbreakingly beautiful.
Oh, you meant ON THE WAY back to their cells. Yes, that makes more sense.
Honestly, why guard ‘em? If they wanna try swimming, oh well.
Uh, just guessing… they might never find the bodies, leading to all sorts of awkward questions…
Has anything.more come of this, or was it just a dead cat manoeuvre, and something shinier has distracted YKW?
As I recall, they had to destroy Altair IV to solve that problem.
Was Robert Stroud having windows in the film just a movie thing?
Richard Dana, in Two Years Before The Mast, describes spending an uncomfortable night on Alcatraz, which he calls Wood Island. In his postscript to some editions, entitled Twenty Years After, he notes its now called Alcatraz and has a military garrison on it.
I would guess so. I suppose it’s possible that some cells in areas not currently open to tourists might have had windows, but I really doubt it.