Shower lovers, rejoice! Donald Trump’s latest executive order is for you.
While the president has signed a flurry of executive actions beginning just hours after he was sworn in on Inauguration Day dealing with major issues like border security, radical gender ideology, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices, there have been some smaller – though no less impactful – policy changes as well.
Days after taking office, Trump signed an order to protect the “freedom to choose light bulbs,” including incandescents. In February, a stroke of his pen ended the forced use of paper straws in federal buildings. And now the president is trying to “Make Showers Great Again” with his executive order on “maintaining acceptable water pressure in showerheads.”
On Thursday’s show, Megyn was joined by Stu Burguiere, host of BlazeTV’s Stu Does America, to discuss the E.O. and Trump’s growing list of wins on popular issues.
‘Make Showers Great Again’
Trump was at the White House on Wednesday signing an executive order on an issue that apparently hits close to home for the president: water pressure in the shower.
“I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out: drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous. And what you do is you end up washing your hair five times longer, so it’s the same water.”
A press release from the White House said the executive order, titled “Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads,” takes aim at the “Obama-Biden war on water pressure” by undoing two programs enacted by former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden that “promulgated multi-thousand-word regulations defining the word ‘showerhead.'”
The 2013 Obama policy caused confusion by redefining a “showerhead” as a “nozzle” and making multi-nozzle showers illegal if they collectively discharged over 2.5 gallons of water per minute, while the Biden administration reaffirmed the Obama definition and also targeted appliances like water heaters, washing machines, dishwashers, and more.
According to the press release, Trump is “restoring sanity to at least one small part of the federal regulations” by “returning to the straightforward meaning of ‘showerhead’ from the 1992 energy law, which sets a simple 2.5-gallons-per-minute standard for showers.”
Easy Wins
Megyn said the order is an easy win with far-reaching impact. “These are things that genuinely improve the life of your average citizen,” she noted. “The audience knows I am all for getting rid of DEI, but people who don’t have kids going through school right now or woke companies that they work for might not have that one touch them personally. But everybody takes a shower or turns on the kitchen faucet and sees the trickle. He is totally right.”
Burguiere joked he had come up with some crafty ways around the water pressure mandates long before Trump’s E.O., but he was more than happy to see the deregulation. “He is hitting me in my soul with this one. This is the best possible thing,” he concluded. “If he gets rid of paper straws and he gets rid of these stupid shower heads, he can have a third, a fourth, and a fifth term as far as I’m concerned.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Burguiere by tuning in to episode 1,046 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.