Alligator Alcatraz Earns Trump New 'Swamp King' Billboard

Drivers making their way through Phoenix, Arizona, can now enjoy a nice view that transports them to a faraway land in South Florida. It takes them to a place across the country where alligators lurk and surround a tented fortress deep in the swampy Florida Everglades called Alligator Alcatraz.

A 40-foot-wide billboard on Grand Avenue in downtown Phoenix, over 2,000 miles away from the controversial immigration center, brings the swampland to the Southwest and declares President Donald Trump the king of both the swamp he promised to "drain" in Washington, D.C. during his first presidential campaign and the swamp where the new detention facility now sits.

In her new project, "Swamp King," artist Karen Fiorito depicts Trump as a towering figure in a filthy swamp, crowned in gold, draped in a “shitcoin” necklace marked by a poop emoji, and clutching a Trump Mobile phone. The billboard references Trump's policies during his second presidency so far, from his tariffs to the "Big Beautiful Bill," to encapsulate the chaos of his administration.
“We really wanted to get the idea across of the swamp being filled with all of this corruption and illegal stuff going on,” Fiorito told Phoenix New Times. “He’s the most corrupt president we’ve ever seen.”

The billboard features an upside-down American flag, a sinking, vandalized Tesla Cybertruck, Trump's Art of the Steal memoir, bombs exploding in the distance, his new Qatari jet with the words "Big Beautiful Bribe" printed across its sleek body, and a young bird flu victim. Just to the right of the baby (yet brawny) president is a nod to the new guards at the new Everglades detention facility: MAGA hat-wearing alligators.  Thanks to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier, Trump's dream of using animal predators to deter illegal immigration is now a reality. The president previously suggested filling the Rio Grande with "crocodiles from Africa" to discourage border crossings into Texas, although Trump insisted that was merely a joke.

"If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Only the alligators and pythons are waiting," Uthmeier said in an interview with Fox Business.

After the state seized the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport from Miami-Dade County last month, it quickly transformed the 39-square-mile Everglades site into a sprawling facility capable of holding 3,000 migrant detainees.

And, in a dystopian yet completely predictable twist, the Florida Republican Party and Uthmeier are selling Alligator Alcatraz merchandise (baby onesie with an alligator cop on it, anyone??).

Evidently, there's more than one way to drain the swamp.