How will these things work? The White House has provided no details on the proposed tariffs on foreign-made movies or the plan to reopen Alcatraz as a prison.

Many California officials responded with a range of ridicule and concern about reopening the nearly century-old prison. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, called it “unhinged.”

President Donald Trump has called for Alcatraz to be reopened as a modern maximum-security facility. Perched on an island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco, the former federal prison gained near mythological status in American culture after housing notorious criminals like Al Capone and Robert Stroud,