Trump signs an executive order to 'make America's showers great again'
Amid an ongoing trade war with Canada and on-and-off-again tariffs, U.S. President Donald Trump took a moment on Wednesday to sign an executive order to “make America’s showers great again.”
Trump commented on the issue
in the Oval Office at the White House, saying that the low water pressure, which applied to all appliances, such as dishwashers, toilets and sinks, was “ridiculous.”
“In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” said Trump, “and I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes ’til it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip.”
🚨President Trump signs an Executive Order to end the overregulation on water pressure and end the war on showers.
Make America’s Showers Great Again! pic.twitter.com/ijVW7uSNsw
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 9, 2025
Trump continued: “What you do is, you end up washing your hands five times longer. So it’s the same water, and we’re going to open it up so that people can live.”
He then signed the order, entitled
“Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads.”
Trump is directing the U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to rescind the previous definition of “showerhead,” putting an end to the “Obama-Biden war on water pressure.” The restrictions were put into place by the Obama administration in an effort to conserve water and protect the environment. They were upheld by the Biden administration.
Per the White House’s
factsheet about the order
, the order will free Americans from “excessive regulations that turned a basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare.”
“No longer will showerheads be weak and worthless,” the White House said. The Trump administration will be “returning to the straightforward meaning of ‘showerhead’ from the 1992 energy law, which sets a simple 2.5-gallons-per-minute standard for showers.”
“We’re going to get rid of those restrictions,” said Trump.
The Obama administration updated limits to showerheads when multiple nozzles became more popular,
the New York Times reported
. The water restriction applied to the entire unit, meaning that although a showerhead could have several nozzles, the total amount of water pressure would still be 2.5 gallons a minute.
Trump tried to make lasting changes in his first presidency — allowing for each nozzle to pump out 2.5 gallons per minute — but they were rescinded by Biden, per the Times.
Trump said that he was trying to get Congress to memorialize this order and others, such as one he signed in February to
ban paper straws
and bring back plastic ones. He called the changes “common sense.”
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