Trump signs executive order on water pressure to ‘restore shower freedom’
White House says order will ‘make America’s showers great again’ and ‘end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure’
White House says order will ‘make America’s showers great again’ and ‘end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure’
“people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once” as a result of insufficient water pressure
How do US toilets work? It should be independent of water pressure, there is a tank of water that gets prefilled, right?
it is. he's just full of shit. no one is flushing more than once unless there's something wrong with their own plumbing. this is a non issue he's made up
It was a complaint about 25 years ago when the first iteration came out. There was a full King of the Hill episode about it. Since then they refined the low flow toilets to be as good as the older style.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J4f0MeoV5pQ&pp=ygUga2luZyBvZiB0aGUgaGlsbCBsb3cgZmxvdyB0b2lsZXQ%3D
Probably trying to flush too much paperwork at once.
Just like most of his talking points. Unfortunately his base eats that shit up.
Although you're right, he is definitely full of shit, I think there are more people flushing multiple times than you think. It's not because of water pressure or plumbing, it's their diet.
He thinks this because HeS literally full of shit.
Your toilets would suck at flushing too if you attempted to flush a fuck ton of classified documents down them!
People with bad diets make poop that doesn’t flush easily as healthy poop that’s got fiber in it.
Also, Americans always need to invent their own way to do things (cheaper), instead of using the existing European and Japanese toilets. The early ones wouldn’t flush a tissue.
Bruh. Trump is a fucking liar. Almost every single thing that comes out of his mouth is a lie. Even stuff he doesn't NEED to lie about.
I have lived in the US my entire life and grew up in abject poverty (think really, really shitty housing infrastructure). I have never seen a toilet that needed to be flushed 10 fucking times. I mean, I know Republicans are completely full of shit but even they can't cause that to happen. It's laughable.
To give the benefit of the doubt, which I don't think he deserves, he may be dealing with low-flow toilets which waste a lot less water. And when you eat McDonald's every day, you probably get backed up pretty badly and maybe overload the toilet on a regular basis.
Most of his toilet problems could probably be solved with a poop knife.
Yeah the actual EO talks about flow rate, which is ironic because using higher flow fixtures decreases the output pressure. Who's doing the real war on water pressure ahaha
I also can't see toilet companies being eager to jump on retooling to make more wasteful toilets since they've already invested in making ones that work just fine with less water. The safe business bet is assuming efficiency will be back in demand at some point in the future, either because of the next president or because of water shortages.
when you eat McDonald’s every day, you probably get backed up pretty badly and maybe overload the toilet on a regular basis.
Al Bundy things. I do believe that the administration is targeting the Al Bundy demographic looking for support in November.
He has no fucking idea how anything works. Even his own EO has nothing to do with water pressure, it's about flow rate. The guy is a moron.
Understand this: they're not his own EOs (well, maybe this one is) - I think by now they've got his choke chain short enough that he's actually getting committee approval before doing stuff, even stuff like this may be his idea, may be his words, but the timing of the EO and the language on paper as well as the press release delivery has all been considered for maximum effect by people who know what the hell happens when stuff like this goes out in the press.
He's shot off his mouth about the multiple flushes many times in the past. The strategy committee decided that now was the time to use an actual EO of the concept to fill the news cycle with their crap instead of somebody else's.
When we first started using low flow toilets in I think 1990s they were poorly designed and didn’t flush well. Over half a century we went from 7 gal/flush —> 5–> 3 —> 1.4 and sometime less, but you can’t just use the same design with less water. Modern designs still save water but flush much more effectively.
Similarly early low flow showerheads were poorly designed but you can spend $20 on a 1.2 gal/minute that works really well, assuming you have the water pressure. My house is at the high end of acceptable pressure so I have to use a reducer with that
Riiight... "some people"
Yes, that is exactly how our home toilets work. Many commercial toilets are tankless and rely on water pressure to operate, but I doubt that’s what’s being discussed here.
he'll probably order all toilets in australia to be outfitted with devices that make the toilets flush in the correct american way next.
Trump only poops in the shower apparently.
He watched the Madonna interview on Letterman and remembered it wrong.
American toilets use to hve a great big bowl that would fill with water. Your bum would be a few centimetres from the water and your turd would float around in the pool of water.
Low flow tolietsare similar to Britsh toliets where a column inside the cistern is used to create greater pressure and flush the bowl.
He was flushing down evidence. Discriminating papers and the like.
And because he is a toddler incapable of distinguishing between himself and other people he thinks this is a general problem.
Some have metal pressure tanks inside.
He claimed in 2019 that “people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once” as a result of insufficient water pressure.
Uhh, this sounds like a "you" problem, Mr. President. More fiber might help. Anyway, thanks for broadcasting your bowel troubles to the whole world, it sure makes you look strong.
Changing of water pressure won't do anything for most household toilets except fill the tank faster.
The dumb thing is that the EO is actually about flow rate, but lots of Americans probably don't understand flow rate and believe that water saving shower heads cause lower pressure.
What's really ironic is that flow and pressure are inversely proportional, so using a high flow shower head as Trump prefers actually reduces the pressure (force) with which the water comes out.
I had to try to explain this to a right winger expat in Ecuador who couldn't understand why he couldn't fix his dribbling shower when his wife was washing dishes by just slapping higher flow fixtures into them. I was unsuccessful.
He's flushing paperwork because he can't read it and he doesn't want anyone else to.
Don't you have those watertanks that fill up and release the water when you press it in america?
There's no water pressure in my toilet, just gravity.
Yes, we do. We also have a moron for a president.
Gravity creates, that's what he means! We must require 40 story buildings with all their showers and toilets on the first floor. All kitchen sinks on the second floor. Reservoirs on the 40th floor.
He wears a fucking diaper. He's shitting his own pants. No way he's flushing toilets.
It was later determined that someone had tried to flush documents down the presidential toilet ... so ... you know.
from the available info on Krasnov, constipation is the opposite of his problem which requires a towel be put down where he sits.
And the smell. Dont forget the smell. Pa' Thiel and the rest of the puppeteers couldn't pick a better puppet.
I think he may need a presidential golden poop knife.
Enough with the executive orders. Jesus. Is this a national emergency too??
executive orders are better than laws since executive orders have no weight and are easily undone next administration.
They're massively performative and make the plebs and cretins who think politics is WWF theater feel like things are happening. They can be hugely destructive and cause massive repercussions, but they're not as long-reaching and permanent as actual policies and bills being passed through house and senate.
There is no next administration.
To Trump, not having every person's attention only focused on him at all times is a national emergency.
It makes him feel like the big boss, without any rules or opposition.
I think it's an extreme case of attention seeking.
Remember when Obama used a few executive orders and the Republicans accused him of trying to be a king?
He wants everyone to know that he did it
i think you're looking for flow rate, mr president. if you change water pressures across the country, everybody's o-rings are gunna have a bad time.
source: my house has extremely high water pressure already.
His o ring blew out a long time ago.
Old man yells at shower. News at 11.
In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair
Good god.
He has to wash all fifteen of them thoroughly
That's his "humor" that so many of his cultists find just hilarious. 🙄
If that dude showers and still smells the way people say he smells... His insides must be rotting or some shit
he regularly shits himself when hes angry or upset, because of the decades of cocaine abuse.
The master of distraction.
I do sometimes worry about how posting the joke-y stuff can distract from the important stuff, but I guess there's also value in being able to have a laugh
I think you can be at the same time: enraged by the attacks on vulnerable people (and so many important topics), disgusted by the lack of ethics and amused by the absolute stupidity of all this circus.
You have reason to worry, because diluting the discussion with memes and irrelevant sidetracking is legit propaganda tool. And somehow Orange 47 is perfect in that role for his supporters and his opposition. It's quite amazing actually.
I finally understand those "Live Laugh Love" signs
Exactly. He's just coming out with stupid stuff to cover the damage that he did in the economy. Everyday he'll just give some distractions like this until the dust settles
I had to recheck 5-6 times while reading that this was the guardian and not some sort of mock guardian/onion news site
Just another ”fascist playbook” thing. Declaring war on pointless, or almost pointless, stuff to make people feel that the country is ”under attack” and to downplay actual important stuff
Also part of the "dominionist playbook", which states that YHWH gave the earth to humans to dominion over it, which they think mean "should deplete its resources ASAP without any second thought".
"shower freedom", this has to be a late april fools right? RIGHT?!
However low you can possibly imagine stupid people going, they'll disappoint you
And Trump is their king...
Ngl, I checked the date on the article
Me too, it's so absurd.
Low flow shower heads have long been a talking point for him. Guess he can't wash the grease off without a power washer.
I feel like it's April 1st all over again.
Every day feels like April fools except the only prank is my future getting stomped out.
Bill Murray should do a sequel.
A horror comedy.
The US has been in a perpetual state of April 1st since november
I wonder how many of those political decoy flares he has in stock. Useless stories that ire up people just to distract them from real problems. Like the "Gulf of America" thing, or the showerhead pressure.
I might have missed the one wherein he makes electric cooktops illegal but I think that one is still coming, at least. And potatoes must use masculine pronouns. And it is domestic terrorism for Taylor Swift to be a meaniepants anymore. Something, something Dr. Seuss. Masturbation will make you blind (please self-report to the nearest blinding centre).
you can always tell when an idiot watches a seinfeld rerun
As an additional layer of stupid, most of the "low pressure" seen in showers is due to water saver shower heads and have nothing to do with the pressure going to or in the home. So this literally proposing that the government regulates your water regulating shower heads.
Not only that but every house I’ve ever lived in has a pressure reducing valve right after the main shutoff. My current one drops the 150psi city pressure down to about 60psi for use in the house.
And it likely predates Obama. This is just weird and invasive government shit.
shakes fist I have had it with the god darn govment regulations!!!
Any chance he's doing this so he has another excuse to try to go after Canada's supply of fresh water?
“But I think Donald Trump’s concerns are somewhat out of date, to tell you the truth.”
Back to around the '30s from what I can tell.
Those would have been his Daddy's concerns - you know, the Daddy that gave him all that money, GREAT man.
Any idiot with a pair of pliers can take the flow regulator out of a consumer-grade shower head that you can buy off the shelf at any hardware store in the country and get as much water pressure as your pipes are capable of pumping into it.
Here's hoping we all still have enough money to buy shower heads in the new Trump economy so we can enjoy the fruits of his labor. Who needs prosperity and economic stability when you have a roaring torrent of water to take a depression shower like a real American patriot?
Our company founder always had the tools necessary to remove flow reduction devices from hotel room showerheads. Together with the power adaptor set for several countries and some other gadgets, this was always part of his travel set.
I had to check twice that the source was a reliable one and not a satiric website...
I read the title and read the word onion in the sub, thought it was nottheonion
I was like lmao yeah spot on mocking the fuck out of this clown... Oh wait.. why does it say the gaurdian 😭
He's having trouble flushing all that incriminating evidence he wants more water.
I'm confused, is it the turds not flushing or the skiddies that he's withering on about?
God DAMMIT Tomtits you have to stop waffle stomping in the shower!
At least it saves water
This is a ploy from big bidet to take over our toilets with pristine water pressure that can douche-clean your asshole and I won't stand for it, god damnit!
Because you have to sit to use the bidet?
the one device i want to have a pressure regulator on it is the bidet. we used to have one that, uh, well you could really do your spring cleaning if you weren't paying attention.
“In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump said as he signed the executive order. “I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”
The douche order
Although I shouldn't be surprised, I did check the date on this one to make sure it wasn't April 1st.
I guarantee you he clogged a low flow toilet and got embarrassed.
So is Trump going to pay to have the pump in my private well replaced with a turbo powered one?
A good not the onion headline
I like it
All this reminds me of is that video of that guy who's friend "upgraded" his shower pressure. And it was just one hyper-powerful stream out of the whole shower head. Wish I had a link.
