r/politics • u/tetaniclemur • 5d ago

No Paywall Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares a National Emergency to Secure America’s Bulk-Power System

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-a-national-emergency-to-secure-americas-bulk-power-system/
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u/mike_b_nimble I voted 5d ago

Yes! He has 2 motivations: personal enrichment and revenge. Those are the only 2 things that get him out of bed in the morning.

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u/Brndrll Rhode Island 5d ago

3 motivations; there's also pedophilia.

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u/sunchase 5d ago

Revenge on his own childhood

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u/androshalforc1 5d ago

Haven’t heard much on his lusting after Ivanka recently. I guess she’s too old for him now.

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u/No_Tax_Timmy 5d ago

I don't think his dick has worked for the past 6 years at least. If he can find it

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u/TheWanderingI 4d ago

That could probably be seen as both personal enrichment and revenge…

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u/Confusion_of_Goblins 5d ago

Exactly. See his vendetta against the Energy Policy act of 1992. I wish I was kidding but he bought some crappy toilets before manufacturers figured out how to engineer around the 1.6 gallon per flush rule and he's hated that act ever since. Pun intended.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 5d ago

Just a minute, he's annoyed that toilets were 'only' allowed to use just over 7 litres of water per flush? Here we use 4 litres for liquid waste and 6 for solids. I've never had one clog either, even though I hear that it's common in the US.

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u/Confusion_of_Goblins 5d ago

When that law was passed toilet manufacturers weren't ready for it.

It took some time but the MaP score was developed as a standardized test so the industry could test new designs against the standard set by law.

Trump has 1.6 gallon toilets in Mar-a-lago that haven't been rated by MaP and do take multiple flushes. I know this because the being the nerd that I am I checked when I was there for work reasons.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom 5d ago

And he never thought to replace these toilets? They must be quite old by now.

But I can absolutely imagine him holding a grudge like that.

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u/Confusion_of_Goblins 5d ago

I'm not sure why he hasn't. He does have a conservation easement on the property to save on taxes. I don't know the details of the easement. I don't know if some red tape in there makes it hard to renovate the bathrooms.

He could just be cheap and not want to spend the money.

I'm not sure. All I know is that the toilets there suck, that they haven't been tested to the MaP standard, and that Trump has been undermining the Energy Policy Act of 1992 which set the standard for toilet tank size in the USA.

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u/Googlebright 5d ago

Is this why he only poos in his pants instead of a toilet?