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Trump Makes Showers "Great Again" While the World Burns: Is This a Parody?

While facing potential market manipulation probes, escalating trade wars, and mass deportations, the President has found time to wage war... on water pressure. Yes, really.

April 11, 2025

Folks, let's take a deep breath because the level of "Are you kidding me?" absurdity coming out of Washington is reaching stratospheric levels. Just when you thought the political landscape couldn't possibly get any more surreal, President Donald Trump has decided to focus his attention on a matter of truly national importance: our showers.

While global markets teeter on the brink of a trade war fueled by his own tariff policies, while his administration faces mounting accusations of potential market manipulation and insider trading, and as reports of mass deportations and escalating crackdowns on immigrants fill the headlines, the President of the United States signed an Executive Order... about showerheads.

Yes, you read that correctly. On Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, President Trump took decisive action to "Make America's Showers Great Again" (his administration's words, not mine), signing an EO titled "Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads." (the fact sheet direct from the White House is linked below, feel free to read it if you are looking for a good laugh). According to the White House, this bold move seeks to "end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure" and reverse what they call "overly complicated federal rules" that turned a "basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare."

The crux of the issue? Those pesky Obama and Biden administrations, in their infinite wisdom, dared to regulate the amount of water flowing from showerheads, capping it at 2.5 gallons per minute (GPM) for the entire shower fixture, even those with multiple nozzles. Trump, a self-proclaimed connoisseur of "perfect" hair, finds this unacceptable. As he reportedly told reporters, he has to "stand in the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out: drip, drip, drip. It's ridiculous." (again, his words, not mine).

So, to liberate Americans from this supposed tyranny of low-flow showers, Trump's Executive Order directs the Energy Secretary to immediately rescind these "overly complicated" regulations and revert to the "straightforward meaning" of a showerhead from the 1992 energy law, which sets the 2.5 GPM limit per nozzle.

As ProPublica reports, this showerhead EO is part of a broader push by the Trump administration to roll back regulations across the Department of Energy, including those affecting appliances like dishwashers and even LED light bulbs. The White House frames this as "slashing red tape" and fighting a "radical green agenda" that supposedly "made life worse for everyday Americans." Because, you know, nothing says "fighting for the working class" like ensuring the wealthy can enjoy power showers.

The sheer, unadulterated WTF-ness of this timing is almost beyond parody. While the world is on the brink of economic chaos and human rights crises, the President is laser-focused on the perceived injustice of inadequate water pressure. It's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while simultaneously setting the lifeboats on fire.

Is this what "making America great again" looks like? Is this the priority of a nation facing down a potential trade war, a potential market manipulation scandal, and the largest deportation push in history? One has to wonder if we've all stumbled into some bizarre alternate reality where plumbing regulations are the defining issue of our time.

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