Trump signs executive order to 'protect his beautiful hair' as he declares 'war on showers'

Although he's got more than enough on his plate as it is, Donald Trump has now picked a fight with showers in the US.

He's been gambling with a global trade war and toying with the stock market with his tariff plan, although there's now a 90-day pause for a host of nations.

But while the President is still getting his ducks in a row in this realm, he has instead redirected the MAGA movement to get behind his latest executive order.

Trump told the world he is going to 'make America's showers great again' by switching up the rules surrounding water flow in the US.

You might be wondering why the commander-in-chief would consider this to be a priority during such a hectic period in the political sphere, but in fact, the answer is very simple.

The President explained that his latest measures will allow him to 'take care of his beautiful hair' and dually condense the time he spends in the shower. Duh!

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Trump explained that he was sick of the lack of water pressure in showers and other household appliances such as toilets and sinks in the States.

It's an issue he has long complained about, as he claimed that Americans were 'flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once' back in 2019.

Water restrictions were first brought in by President George HW Bush in 1992, after he signed the Energy Policy Act.

It meant that new toilets couldn't use more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush, while shower heads weren't allowed to produce more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute.

When Barack Obama was in office, he redefined these rules as part of his Energy Conservation Program, so that the water efficiency rules would apply to all nozzles on a shower head rather than each individual one.

At the end of his first term in 2020, Trump wanted to change this again so that each nozzle was allowed to shoot out up to 2.5 gallons a minute - however, Joe Biden later blocked this during his presidency.

Now he's back in the White House, Trump wants to put a stop to what he described as the 'war on showers' which was supposedly orchestrated by his predecessors.

Trump signed the executive order on Wednesday, saying the former shower restrictions were 'ridiculous' (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

In the Oval Office on Wednesday (9 April), he signed an executive order to reverse these restrictions on water pressure and discussed how he hopes it will make his haircare routine easier.

"In my case, I like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair," the President said. "I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out like 'drip, drip, drip'. It's ridiculous."

In a statement on the latest executive order signed by Trump, the White House added: "By restoring shower freedom, President Trump is following through on his commitment to dismantle unnecessary regulations and put Americans first," while it described the previous rules as a 'radical green agenda that made life worse for Americans'.

Who knew our friends across the pond were having such a hellish time in the shower, eh?

The Trump administration say they are enacting a 'war on water pressure', because Americans 'pay for their own water and should be free to choose their shower heads without federal meddling.'

The President wants to 'make America's showers great again' and 'take care of his beautiful hair' (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Apparently, this issue has been wreaking havoc on people's hairdos for years, if Trump's comments are anything to go by.

He made similar complaints about the impact the supposedly weak water pressure was having on his tresses in August 2020 too, according to the BBC.

"So shower heads - you take a shower, the water doesn't come out," Trump said at the time. 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."

The order explains that the change will be implemented in 30 days, after the energy secretary publishes a notice redefining the new rules.

The White House fact sheet explained: "President Trump is restoring sanity to at least one small part of the federal regulations, returning to the straightforward meaning of “shower head” from the 1992 energy law, which sets a simple 2.5-gallons-per-minute standard for showers.

"The Order frees Americans from excessive regulations that turned a basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare. No longer will shower heads be weak and worthless."