President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he would order the government rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a former prison on a small island of the same name off the coast of San Francisco that once housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the country,

Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison has triggered backlash over the steep financial and logistical challenges the project would face.

STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump has called for the reopening and expansion of the infamous prison, Alcatraz. In a post on Truth Social Sunday, he suggested housing "America’s most ruthless and violent offenders” there – saying:“When we were a more serious Nation,