--- title: Donald Trump Jr Swam in a Swamp: Tweet Roundup description: Donald Trump Jr. may be eager to "drain the swamp" in Washington, D.C., but he apparently has no problem swimming in one in Louisiana. canonical: https://time.com/5391790/donald-trump-jr-swamp/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-10T18:14:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:46.805Z og:title: Donald Trump Jr. Literally Swam in a Swamp og:description: Trump on a stump, meet Trump in a swamp og:url: https://time.com/5391790/donald-trump-jr-swamp/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab4ee742881ab59b/698939d5096a94fb046a3664/donald-trump-jr-swamp.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Donald-Trump-Jr-Swamp og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Jr. Literally Swam in a Swamp twitter:description: Trump on a stump, meet Trump in a swamp twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab4ee742881ab59b/698939d5096a94fb046a3664/donald-trump-jr-swamp.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Jr. Literally Swam in a Swamp and the Tweets Write Themselves > Sponsored content. 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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 10, 2018 6:14 PM UTC [Donald Trump Jr.](http://time.com/5197187/donald-trump-jr-chocolate-bunny/) may be eager to [“drain the swamp”](https://www.instagram.com/p/BL1m3myjp3y/) in [Washington, D.C.](http://time.com/donald-trump-drain-swamp/), but he apparently has no problem swimming in one in Louisiana. The eldest son of President Donald Trump took to Instagram on Sunday to share some photos of himself neck-deep in a murky—and apparently “gator-infested”—bayou in the city of Broussard. “This is what happens when someone bets me a good sum that there’s no way that the guy from New York City would swim in a gator infested swamp/bayou down in Louisiana,” he captioned the shots. “Easy money!!!” Of course, some of Trump Jr.’s critics couldn’t resist cracking a joke about the incident. “Risking your life for no good reason in gator-infested waters to own the libs,” quipped one Twitter user. “When you forget to drain the swamp and end up swimming in it instead,” added another. > [](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1038986606898827264) > [](https://twitter.com/Lyricoldrap/status/1038997432309374978) See some more reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1038992096026341376) > [](https://twitter.com/FairWarning66/status/1039168730461360130) > [](https://twitter.com/PhilippeReines/status/1039016925685329921) > [](https://twitter.com/12crows/status/1038993473565650945) > [](https://twitter.com/kate%5Fhess/status/1039015467015266304) > [](https://twitter.com/VidMan9/status/1038990179137028096) > [](https://twitter.com/rainycitygal/status/1038994744737591297) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5391790/donald-trump-jr-swamp/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5391790/donald-trump-jr-swamp/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Jr. Literally Swam in a Swamp and the Tweets Write Themselves","datePublished":"2018-09-10T18:14:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:46.805Z","description":"\"Risking your life for no good reason in gator-infested waters to own the libs\"","url":"https://time.com/5391790/donald-trump-jr-swamp/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Donald Trump Jr."],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab4ee742881ab59b/698939d5096a94fb046a3664/donald-trump-jr-swamp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab4ee742881ab59b/698939d5096a94fb046a3664/donald-trump-jr-swamp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald-Trump-Jr-Swamp","caption":"Donald Trump Jr. speaks during a campaign rally on July 5, 2018","creditText":"Justin Sullivan/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5391790/donald-trump-jr-swamp/","name":"Donald Trump Jr. Literally Swam in a Swamp and the Tweets Write Themselves"}}]}] ```