NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n\n\n- President Donald Trump called former President Joe Biden a “son of a bitch” on Tuesday, July 1<\/li>\n
- While touring the new ICE detention center in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” Trump claimed that Biden tried to put him behind bars: “He wanted me in here, that son of a bitch”<\/li>\n
- Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on May 30, 2024, though Biden was not involved with the case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0took a swipe at former President\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday, July 1, as he toured a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the Florida Everglades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nTrump surveyed the controversial new facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz<\/a>,” alongside Florida Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a>, Homeland Security Secretary\u00a0Kristi Noem<\/a>\u00a0and members of the press. The massive warehouse, full of chain link dividers and hundreds of bunk beds, will be a holding area for ICE detainees as the Trump administration continues to ramp up deportation efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“Biden wanted me in here, okay?” Trump told reporters while standing in the holding facility. \u201cIt didn\u2019t work out that way, but he wanted me in here, that son of a bitch.”<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and Ron DeSantis tour “Alligator Alcatraz” on July 1, 2025.<\/span>ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrump was\u00a0convicted of 34 felony counts<\/a>\u00a0of falsifying business records on May 30, 2024, just months before he was reelected for a second presidential term. Despite the unanimous jury verdict, and the fact that his charges carried a penalty of\u00a0up to four years in prison<\/a>, Trump was granted “unconditional discharge<\/a>” and was not imprisoned, fined, or put on probation.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nDuring the sentencing announcement, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said that \u2014 while the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office ultimately recommended unconditional discharge out of respect for the office of the presidency \u2014 he did not want to downplay Trump’s “unsubstantiated attacks” on the rule of law and his “coordinated campaign” to undermine the jury’s conclusion.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nNever miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nTrump also faced two federal indictments in 2023 over\u00a0his handling of classified documents<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election<\/a>, and\u00a0an additional indictment in Georgia<\/a>\u00a0that was also related to election subversion. The cases were closed upon his reelection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nDespite Trump peddling a conspiracy theory that Biden orchestrated the charges against him, the federal government was not involved in the New York case that led to a conviction. And though Biden was president at the time that the federal indictments against Trump were dropped, he has maintained that he had no influence over the Justice Department’s investigations. (Biden’s own son,\u00a0Hunter<\/a>, was\u00a0tried and convicted by the DOJ<\/a>\u00a0during his presidency.)<\/p>\nMeanwhile, Alligator Alcatraz \u2014 where Trump took his latest jab at Biden \u2014 will house up to 5,000 of the detainees arrested daily as part of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nThe center was built in just eight days on the abandoned Everglades Jetport, and the administration has touted the area’s surrounding wildlife \u2014 which includes alligators, panthers and pythons \u2014 as an added measure of security.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“You don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure [with] a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators that you don’t have to pay them so much,” Trump\u00a0told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/djRjaO2iynLP3FBuEvvFEncFO4E=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2):format(webp)\/alligator-in-water-alligator-alcatraz-070225-3b8bb42b83bf4ced9671cbd0c095a9f3.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/div>An alligator swims near the new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades.<\/span>GIORGIO VIERA\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHowever, the opening of the detention center was met by plenty of protestors. Some followed in the footsteps of\u00a0anti-ICE protests<\/a>\u00a0that have cropped up nationwide since Inauguration Day. Others, however, were concerned about the environmental impact of the site within the Big Cypress National Preserve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nEnvironmental groups have objected to the\u00a0Florida government’s assertion<\/a>\u00a0that the development will have no impact on the unique Everglades ecosystem. Three groups sued to stop the fast-tracked construction, arguing that it left no time for environmental reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cThe site is more than 96% wetlands, surrounded by Big Cypress National Preserve, and is habitat for the endangered Florida panther and other iconic species. This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect,\u201d said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>Protesters oppose the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz” during Donald Trump’s visit on July 1.<\/span>GIORGIO VIERA\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe area also holds significance for local Native American groups. According to\u00a0The Associated Press<\/a>, Big Cypress is home to 15 traditional Miccosukee and Seminole villages, in addition to ceremonial and burial grounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cRather than Miccosukee homelands being an uninhabited wasteland for alligators and pythons, as some have suggested, the Big Cypress is the Tribe\u2019s traditional homelands. The landscape has protected the Miccosukee and Seminole people for generations,\u201d Miccosukee Chairman Talbert Cypress wrote in\u00a0a statement on social media<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president couldn’t help but take a swipe at his former political opponent while showing off a new ICE detention center NEED TO KNOW President Donald Trump called … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29823,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions\/29823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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- President Donald Trump called former President Joe Biden a “son of a bitch” on Tuesday, July 1<\/li>\n
- While touring the new ICE detention center in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” Trump claimed that Biden tried to put him behind bars: “He wanted me in here, that son of a bitch”<\/li>\n
- Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on May 30, 2024, though Biden was not involved with the case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0took a swipe at former President\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday, July 1, as he toured a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the Florida Everglades.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nTrump surveyed the controversial new facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz<\/a>,” alongside Florida Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a>, Homeland Security Secretary\u00a0Kristi Noem<\/a>\u00a0and members of the press. The massive warehouse, full of chain link dividers and hundreds of bunk beds, will be a holding area for ICE detainees as the Trump administration continues to ramp up deportation efforts.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“Biden wanted me in here, okay?” Trump told reporters while standing in the holding facility. \u201cIt didn\u2019t work out that way, but he wanted me in here, that son of a bitch.”<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and Ron DeSantis tour “Alligator Alcatraz” on July 1, 2025.<\/span>ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Trump was\u00a0convicted of 34 felony counts<\/a>\u00a0of falsifying business records on May 30, 2024, just months before he was reelected for a second presidential term. Despite the unanimous jury verdict, and the fact that his charges carried a penalty of\u00a0up to four years in prison<\/a>, Trump was granted “unconditional discharge<\/a>” and was not imprisoned, fined, or put on probation.<\/p>\n
\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nDuring the sentencing announcement, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said that \u2014 while the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office ultimately recommended unconditional discharge out of respect for the office of the presidency \u2014 he did not want to downplay Trump’s “unsubstantiated attacks” on the rule of law and his “coordinated campaign” to undermine the jury’s conclusion.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nNever miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/div>\nTrump also faced two federal indictments in 2023 over\u00a0his handling of classified documents<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election<\/a>, and\u00a0an additional indictment in Georgia<\/a>\u00a0that was also related to election subversion. The cases were closed upon his reelection.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nDespite Trump peddling a conspiracy theory that Biden orchestrated the charges against him, the federal government was not involved in the New York case that led to a conviction. And though Biden was president at the time that the federal indictments against Trump were dropped, he has maintained that he had no influence over the Justice Department’s investigations. (Biden’s own son,\u00a0Hunter<\/a>, was\u00a0tried and convicted by the DOJ<\/a>\u00a0during his presidency.)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Alligator Alcatraz \u2014 where Trump took his latest jab at Biden \u2014 will house up to 5,000 of the detainees arrested daily as part of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nThe center was built in just eight days on the abandoned Everglades Jetport, and the administration has touted the area’s surrounding wildlife \u2014 which includes alligators, panthers and pythons \u2014 as an added measure of security.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n“You don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure [with] a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators that you don’t have to pay them so much,” Trump\u00a0told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>An alligator swims near the new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades.<\/span>GIORGIO VIERA\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n However, the opening of the detention center was met by plenty of protestors. Some followed in the footsteps of\u00a0anti-ICE protests<\/a>\u00a0that have cropped up nationwide since Inauguration Day. Others, however, were concerned about the environmental impact of the site within the Big Cypress National Preserve.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nEnvironmental groups have objected to the\u00a0Florida government’s assertion<\/a>\u00a0that the development will have no impact on the unique Everglades ecosystem. Three groups sued to stop the fast-tracked construction, arguing that it left no time for environmental reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\u201cThe site is more than 96% wetlands, surrounded by Big Cypress National Preserve, and is habitat for the endangered Florida panther and other iconic species. This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect,\u201d said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>Protesters oppose the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz” during Donald Trump’s visit on July 1.<\/span>GIORGIO VIERA\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The area also holds significance for local Native American groups. According to\u00a0The Associated Press<\/a>, Big Cypress is home to 15 traditional Miccosukee and Seminole villages, in addition to ceremonial and burial grounds.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n\u201cRather than Miccosukee homelands being an uninhabited wasteland for alligators and pythons, as some have suggested, the Big Cypress is the Tribe\u2019s traditional homelands. The landscape has protected the Miccosukee and Seminole people for generations,\u201d Miccosukee Chairman Talbert Cypress wrote in\u00a0a statement on social media<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n
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