Well that's another few billion in useless deficit spending to reopen Alcatraz

He wants it reopened because in his 12-year-old's brain, it represents the ultimate in punishment.

I remember during his first campaign, he promised to have Bill Gates head up some tech commission. Now, Gates has been out of the tech biz for decades, but he's a person who Trump associates with computers, so he was the choice.

That's how Trump's infantile mind works.

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That's Trump. During his first campaign, he said that he brings business skills to the Presidency, and he can ask top people to work with him.

He gave Gates as an example. Problem. is that he never discussed it with Gates. When he heard about it, Gates relayed an incident with Trump. Gates's teenage daughter, was participating in an equestrian event that Trump was attending.

To impress the teenage, Trump left, and had a helicopter bring him back, and tried to introduce himself to her.

FYI: Gates is not out of the tech business. He's no longer running a software company, but his foundation is working with bleeding edge technology on philanthropy programs, and he also heads another company, that's developing the next generation, small scale, distributed hybrid nuke architecture. They broke ground on a plant in Wyoming on a plant that used to be a coal-fired power plant, with big fanfare from the Governor of Wyoming.

He's now on Trump shit list.