I'm taking it *waaay* too literally, but "Drain the swamp" is a very dumb slogan

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Swamps are actually very valuable ecosystems and places that have chosen to drain them in order to pave them over for development have suffered greatly and there's been a negative on native plat and animal species.

I totally get it's supposed to be a metaphor but I still think it's a dumb one. Of course someone like Donald Trump would write off swamps as just being gross and useless places that ought to be done away with.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Worse than that, it's just not very catchy.

They would have been better just sticking with the main, original campaign slogan.

[s-cubed]

3. My dad used to say,

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember the objective was to drain the swamp.


I think dot is up to his ass in alligators, and no way he can drain the swamp.

[trof]

4. Swamp AKA wetlands. I had the same thought.

Many years ago it was thought to be a good thing.
Draining the swamp.
Land reclamation we called it.

We learned that the wetlands were the lungs of the biosphere.
Now we leave the swamps alone.