Trump responds to 2026 agenda question with bizarre rant about 'water coming out of a sink'

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump turned a straightforward question about his 2026 agenda into a winding rant about sinks, showerheads and soggy paper straws during a Tuesday interview.

Asked what he wants Congress to tackle heading into a crucial midterm election year, Trump bypassed the usual talking points to talk about how there wasn't enough water coming out of household appliances.

Trump's eyebrow-raising response to 2026 agenda question

It came during an interview with NewsNation host Katie Pavlich. “For 2026, especially in a midterm election year, what is your goal for Congress in terms of getting your agenda through?” she asked. “What is on the agenda? What expectations do you have for Congress?”

“Well, one of the things I’d like to do– you know, we passed so many executive orders. I have great executive orders, and they’re really common sense and good,” Trump began. “I mean, like water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn’t come out. They had all sorts of ridiculous restrictions. I took all of that off. Coming out of the showerhead, you’d stand under a shower, but there’s no water coming out. So I passed so many things like that." 

Trump continued by ticking through what he sees as everyday annoyances caused by regulation. “Straws. They don’t have to be paper anymore. They don’t have to melt in your mouth,” he said.

He insisted these moves weren’t trivial. “So I passed so many different things like that, and much more important things, but like that. They’re important, they’re quality of life,” Trump said. “I’d like to have all of that confirmed by Congress if we can, and we’ve done a lot of it. We’ve probably 35, 40%. I’d like to get them all confirmed. Every one of them.”

“So you’d like your executive orders codified in law, so to speak?” Pavlich asked to clarify.

“Ideally, we get them codified, and we get them codified soon, yes,” Trump said.

A familiar fixation

It's worth noting that Trump has repeatedly returned to the topic of water flow and household appliances over the years, often portraying federal regulations as an assault on common sense and personal comfort.

Back in 2019, Trump complained that Americans were being forced into 'flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times' in a row because there wasn’t enough water.

He also lamented shower restrictions. “You turn on the shower, you’re not allowed to have any water anymore,” Trump said. “Remember the dishwasher? You’d press it, boom, there would be like an explosion, five minutes later, he opened it up, the steam pours out, the dishes.”

According to Trump, those days were gone. “Now you press it 12 times, women tell me, again, they give you four drops of water, and there are places where there’s so much water they don’t know what to do with it.”

“It’s terrible,” he said. “You wanna wash your hands, you turn on the sink, no water comes out, so you leave the water on ten times as long, it’s the same thing. You have a shower. Drip. It’s no good for me."

Last year, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy pledged on Newsmax that Trump would once again take aim at low-flow fixtures. “The president is talking about showerheads,” Duffy said. “You don’t have enough water that can come through your showerhead because of Biden’s regulations.”

Duffy said it was part of a broader push to undo what he called unnecessary rules. “And so again, fixing small things like that – hopefully he’s gonna get the dishwashers – wouldn’t it be great if dishwashers worked again?” he added. “Where you don’t have to wash your dishes first and then put them in the dishwasher to actually get a little heat on them?”