On Wednesday, April 9, the president ordered the Secretary for Energy Chris Wright to withdraw the regulations from the time of Barack Obama and Joe Biden limiting the pressure in the shower heads. In particular, Trump opposed the performance standards that interfere with his iconic hairstyle.
“In my case, I like to take a pleasant shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump told journalists when signing an ordinance in an oval office on Wednesday. “[Przez niskie ciśnienie wody] I have to stand in the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. And the water drips, drips. It's ridiculous, “he complained.
In the information sheet, which accompanied the announcement of the executive ordinance, the White House presented a new order as Trump's pressure on the abolition of excessive regulation, which “chokes the American economy, grounds bureaucrats and suppresses personal freedom.”
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“Shower wars” in the USA
The president has long been fighting a policy to save water in the bathroom.
“I don't know how you have, but my hair must be perfect, perfect,” he emphasized, speaking in front of the White House in 2020.
In August 2020, the Department of Energy began to change the regulations, which would allow individual shower nozzles, but not the entire shower head, to emit up to 2.5 galls [około 9,5 l] water per minute. Biden administration announced plans to reverse this rule in July 2021.
As the administration officials in the White House information sheet, “shower wars were ongoing”.
“When I take a shower, I want these beautiful hair to be just well foamed,” said Trump during the Turning Point Action event in Detroit in June 2024. “I want them to be beautifully foamed. He complained.
