Donald Trump has returned to get the executive pen to fight a new battle in one of the most personal wars in which he is involved: the water pressure of the showers in the United States. The president has signed on Wednesday a new executive order that erases the limits to the water flow and declares war on showers whose pressure is very low. “When I take a shower, I want the water to fall to a jet. Now you have to be fifteen minutes under until you get droves. Drip, Drip, Drip. It is ridiculous,” he said from the oval office, before signing the decree.
“I want to shower well and take care of my beautiful hair,” joked a Donald Trump that this Wednesday has also had to recreate in his tariff war, declaring -to the one that punishes again with another climb -, in regards to the payment of the extra tariffs that entered today and that have brought the shadow of the recession on the global economy.
Trump’s crusade against Rácan taps is not new. In fact, this is the second time that cancels this measure. In his first term he revoked the rules approved during the Barack Obama government and, now, he repeals the regulation that Joe Biden recovered as soon as he arrives at the White House. A regulation whose objective was to save waterlimiting pressure and flows per minute. A legislation that, as stunned by the draft of the decree, advanced exclusively by He wants to end what the Republican tycoon considers a condemnation of the Americans: “No loose and pressure showers. Let’s make the showers of America again,” he says.
According to a statement published by the White House on its website, this new order of Donald Trump requires the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, who immediately repeals a federal regulation “excessively complicated that redefined the term ‘shower head'” during the Democratic mandates that preceded it. According to the note, The cancellation of the standard will be effective 30 days after the date of publication of the notice.
Trump has never walked around when talking about the subject. In his opinion, Obama and Biden have done nothing more to complicate the lives of US citizens in tasks as basic as washing their hands or taking a bath. In 2020, during the electoral campaign, he had already sentenced modern showers because they waste time and cause him frustration. “What happens is that you end up washing your hands five times more, so in the end you use the same water. We are going to open the tap so that people can live,” he has declared.
Already in his first term, Donald Trump ordered a complete review of the norms that regulate the efficiency in bathrooms and kitchens, something that caused a wave of memes in social networks with the hashtag. He also declared war on the toilets who, according to him, forced him to “pull the chain 10 or 15 times” to work well. At the beginning of the year, after returning to the White House, in full dismantling of Joe Biden’s environmental policy, with the Y, he has also repealed environmental measures on washing machines, dishwasher and any device that, according to him, does not give up.
But the issue does not only hair, pressure and water savings. The restrictions that Donald Trump has just eliminated have been in force in the United States since 1992, when another Republican president, George Hw Bush, approved them. With those limits, An average family could save up to $ 380 a year and more than 60 liters of water a dayaccording to the data of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Non -profit organizations that are dedicated to promoting formulas to avoid water waste, such as the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, They criticize that the Republican tycoon in the White House has chosen to take a different path, in the opposite direction.
To Trump, however, it seems to him that the United States government is getting into where he should not. “Americans pay their own water and have the right to choose how they shower,” the order collects. For him, the pressure in the shower is not a minor issue, especially when what is at stake is his characteristic hairstyle.
