Trump Repeals Biden-Era Limit on Water Flow in Shower Heads
President Trump, who has waged a long-running battle against low water pressure, signed an executive order that redefined a common bathroom fixture.
I mean, he repealed Obama's executive order, which redefined the shower heads.
How long does it take you to wet your hair in the shower? A few seconds? A minute?
The president of the United States, who has long complained about being unable to coax more than a dribble or trickle of water from his showers, says it takes him much longer.
"I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair," President Trump said on Wednesday in the Oval Office. "I stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It's ridiculous."
Much of the world was focused at that moment on his trade war, but Mr. Trump wanted to talk about showers. He offered this insight while signing an executive order to loosen restrictions on water flow from American shower heads. The order directs Energy Secretary Chris Wright to rescind a definition of shower heads first implemented by President Barack Obama.
It is the second time that Mr. Trump as president has attempted to redefine a shower head. A rule he introduced in his first term drastically increased the amount of water that showers with multiple nozzles could use. The Biden administration later reversed that change.
"No longer will shower heads be weak and worthless," the White House said in a news release on Wednesday.
How big of an issue is this, really? And how many ways can you define a shower head?
For Mr. Trump, it has been a long-running crusade.
He has railed for years against low water pressure in bathrooms, an issue in some New York City high-rises. During his first term in the White House, he lamented that his showers did not supply enough water for him to achieve his "perfect" hair, part of a campaign against what he described as excessive government regulation.
"You take a shower, the water doesn't come out," he said in 2020. "You want to wash your hands, the water doesn't come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair -- I don't know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect."
At a dinner with Republican leaders in 2023, he repeated his complaint: "You know I have this gorgeous head of hair -- when I take a shower, I want water to pour down on me. When you go into these new homes with showers, the water drips down slowly, slowly."
The left's entire mission can be boiled down to let's fuck with people for almost no reason, just to show that we can, just to feel powerful in our impotence, just to dominate people who are better and stronger than we are.
And they're consistently baffled when the people revolt because they don't like anti-productive busybodies constantly fucking with them to prove that they have Power over other people.
Mr. Trump's new order restores language from a 1992 federal law, enacted to conserve water, that prevented new American-made shower heads from spritzing more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute. Some states, including California and Colorado, as well as New York City, have imposed their own lower rates.
As showers with multiple nozzles became more common, the Obama administration ordered the 2.5-gallon limit to be applied to each shower head, not each nozzle.
Toward the end of Mr. Trump's first presidential term, he set out to redefine what constitutes a shower head.
Previously, it had been defined in federal regulations as "any plumbing fitting designed to direct water onto a bather," meaning that a unit with multiple nozzles counted as a single shower head.
Trump changed the definition back to what it used to be. The Times brands this some kind of activist invasion into people's right to have low water pressure in their showers.
Trump also announced an investigation into first-term leaker Miles Taylor, who posted anonymously as the media proclaimed him to be a high-level official. In fact, he was a low-level drone.
He also ordered an investigation into this guy:
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BREAKING: Donald Trump signs Executive Order to launch investigation into CISA's former head Chris Krebs, whom he fired on November 17, 2020 shortly after Krebs and his agency, alongside other election officials, issued a statement on November 12, 2020, declaring the 2020 presidential election "the most secure in American history," directly contradicting Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud.
CISA is the alleged "cybersecurity" agency that was so frequently involved in censoring Americans.
One of the most consequential executive orders of his presidency: