{"id":943,"date":"2025-07-01T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=943"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:18:36","slug":"trumps-advice-to-alligator-alcatraz-escapees-dont-run-in-a-straight-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/trumps-advice-to-alligator-alcatraz-escapees-dont-run-in-a-straight-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump's advice to 'Alligator Alcatraz' escapees: 'Don't run in a straight line'"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Tuesday advised would-be escapees from Florida’s new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility<\/a> to zigzag when trying to evade reptilian predators lurking in the Everglades.<\/p>\n

“Don’t run in a straight line; run like this,” the president said to reporters, waving his hand from side-to-side, before he left<\/a> the White House for Florida on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“You know what, your chances go up by 1 percent. Not a good thing,” he added.<\/p>\n

Trump is touring<\/a> the remote facility<\/a>, which was built through a partnership with state and federal resources to bolster the president’s immigration crackdown, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). The soft-sided units outfitted with chain-link cells have been built to house hundreds of detainees.<\/p>\n

In a video first coining the site “Alligator Alcatraz,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R), who joined Trump for Tuesday’s tour, highlighted its remote location as a bonus.<\/p>\n

“People get out, there\u2019s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons \u2014 nowhere to go, nowhere to hide,” he said in a video<\/a> shared on social platform X last month.<\/p>\n

Trump similarly remarked about the far-flung location during a public event during his trip there.<\/p>\n

“It’s known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ which is very appropriate, because I looked outside and it’s not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon,” he said. “We’re surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is, really, deportation.”<\/p>\n

Wildlife experts mostly dismiss the zigzagging advice when encountering a gator, though.<\/p>\n

“A prevalent myth suggests that alligators can outrun humans over short distances or that zigzagging can confuse them,” Field & Stream magazine<\/a> noted in a survival guide published in 2023. “However, the reality is that running in a straight line away from the threat is your safest bet.”<\/p>\n

“An alligator\u2019s primary advantage is not its speed on land but its agility and prowess in the water,” the article added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Tuesday advised would-be escapees from Florida’s new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility to zigzag when trying to evade reptilian predators lurking in the Everglades. “Don’t run in<\/p>\n

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