SAN FRANCISCO (TNND) — Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will reportedly be in San Francisco on Thursday to announce plans to reopen Alcatraz.

President Donald Trump mentioned in May wanting to reopen the federal penitentiary "to house America's most ruthless and violent offenders."

The former notorious prison, nicknamed "The Rock," was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility. It has been a National Park Service site since the 70s.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the reported visit the Trump Administration's "stupidest initiative yet."

"With stiff competition, the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration's stupidest initiative yet. It should concern us all that clearly the only intellectual resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish notion are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies," Pelosi said in a statement.

She insisted the reopening of the former prison is a "diversionary tactic" to draw Americans' focus away from Trump's recent "Big, Beautiful Bill."

"It remains to be seen how this Administration could possibly afford to spend billions to convert and maintain Alcatraz as a prison when they are already adding trillions of dollars to the national debt with their sinful law," she continued. “Should reason not prevail and Republicans bring this absurdity before the Congress, Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary tactic available to stop the lunacy.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office released a statement to KGO saying, "Pam Bondi will reopen Alcatraz the same day Trump lets her release the Epstein files. So... never."

According to San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, there are no "realistic plans" to reopen Alcatraz "as anything other than the wonderful tourist attraction that it currently is..."