The Showerhead Saga: When Policy Gets Personal (and Ridiculous)

Trump’s Executive Order on water pressure isn’t just absurd — it’s a case study in how pettiness can become policy.

You couldn’t make this up if you tried.

In a week overflowing with headlines about inflation, crumbling global trust, and a dollar in free fall, the Trump administration decided to tackle… water pressure.

Yes. You read that right. The President of the United States took time to sign an executive order about showerheads. Because, in his words, he has “to stand under the shower for 15 minutes” just to wet his “beautiful hair.”

The EO, titled with alarming seriousness, aims to “Make America’s Showers Great Again.” It repeals the Biden-era rule (which itself had built on earlier Obama regulations) limiting total water output from multi-nozzle showers. Never mind that those rules were meant to conserve water and energy. Trump saw it as an attack on personal hygiene and, more importantly, on him personally.

Here’s the thing: There’s no nationwide shower crisis. There’s no movement demanding more gallons per minute. This isn’t an issue real Americans wake up thinking about. But it is something that bothers one man — a man who happens to hold immense executive power and uses it like a petty Yelp reviewer with nuclear codes.

In fact, the White House released a “Fact Sheet” explaining how the Biden administration’s 13,000-word definition of a showerhead was oppressive — and that Trump was here to restore “sanity.” Because apparently the greatest threat to American liberty isn’t foreign interference, it’s lukewarm drizzle.

This is the policy equivalent of flipping the board in Monopoly because you landed on someone else’s hotel. It’s not about governance — it’s about grievance.

What’s more alarming? The amount of federal time, money, and legal manpower that went into undoing a rule that… no one was really asking to undo.

Worse still: this isn’t isolated. It’s part of a broader war on standards — energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, regulatory common sense. Dishwashers, stoves, gas mileage, now showers. If it conserves resources or improves long-term resilience, it seems to go straight on the chopping block.

All because the President didn’t like his morning rinse.

Let’s be real: this isn’t about freedom. It’s about ego. And in this administration, ego trumps everything — including science, policy, and reality.

So yes, laugh. Share the memes. But also remember: this isn’t harmless. It’s not just about hair.

It’s a blueprint for how not to govern.