Herschel Walker Has a Bizarre Message for Americans Traveling to the Bahamas This Summer

It’s not often that Herschel Walker makes his way into headlines—but whenever he does, he sure makes things weird.

Walker, best known for being a University of Georgia football star who spent a 15-year career playing for four teams until he quit the NFL in 1997, first sauntered into a political career in 2022, during which he ran—and lost—for a Senate seat in Georgia. (And lest we forget Walker ran—like many of his MAGA affiliates—on a heavy anti-abortion platform, even amid reports of his ex-girlfriend claiming he once paid for her abortion. He has denied these claims.)

Walker’s MAGA-fueled rancor never stopped, however, and three years after his loss, he was tapped and confirmed to become Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas. Which, dear reader, leads us to the warning he shared with Americans via Twitter on Monday.

“I have an important message for Americans visiting or living in the Bahamas,” Walker says in a video posted by the official account of the U.S. Embassy in Nassau. “I need to warn you about some serious dangers associated with renting jet skis and small watercraft—and swimming in beaches where jet skis and small watercraft are being operated in shallow waters, particularly around Nassau and Paradise Island. We’ve lost American lives to preventable accidents, multiple visitors have been hospitalized.”

Everyday we see real things from the government that the writers of Veep couldn’t come up with on an Ayahuasca retreat https://t.co/SMWhms73Ik

— Asscela Express 🚅 (@biz_socks) June 15, 2026

In the rest of the video, Walker warns of the dangers of rented jet skis, with the caption reading: “jet ski rentals pose a serious risk of injury, death, and sexual assault.” Which, um, raises more questions than answers. 

Last year, the State Department issued a similar warning, amid several reports of jet ski operators in the area sexually assaulting women. The embassy has said there were two of these incidents in 2025, as well as three in 2024. And in September 2025, one individual was killed after being struck by an unlicensed operator in an unregistered boat. 

Alas, much of this detail was left out in Walker’s announcement—leaving many confused of his rather ominous warning. But, well, as we well know by now… the man’s got a penchant for dropping random comments wherever and whenever he can.