The name alone surely was enough to lure Donald Trump to Florida.

The president heads to “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday. The evocative name refers to a detention, processing and deportation camp for undocumented migrants that sprang up in a blink of an eye in the middle of the Everglades.

The airfield site, in Ochopee, west of Miami, is a perfect backdrop for Trump’s stunt politics. Here, he can pose as a scowling strongman to please voters who hate political correctness. Democrats squeamish about the imagery and the undercurrent of cruelty around his immigration purge risk being mocked as soft on the border.

The symbolism of the leader of the world’s most important democracy, who idolizes foreign dictators, enthusing over a detention camp may stir dark historic echoes .

But that’s not worrying the White House. It loves the optics and is evoking cartoonish imagery of a draconian outpost in a wilderness patrolled by razor-toothed reptiles and venomous snakes.