Donald Trump has signed an executive order demanding a return to plastic straws, claiming their impact on marine life is limited and calling paper versions “ridiculous”. The Telegraph has more.
The President’s directive rips up the target set by Joe Biden, his predecessor, to eliminate single-use plastic utensils, such as straws, across Government agencies by 2035.
“We’re going back to plastic straws,” Mr Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office on Monday.
“These things don’t work, I’ve had them many times and on occasion, they break, they explode. If something’s hot, they don’t last very long, like a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds. It’s a ridiculous situation,” he said.
Environmentalists have long campaigned for an end to the use of plastic utensils, pointing to its polluting of marine environments, breakdown into harmful microplastics and devastating impact on wildlife. …
But Mr Trump, whose long-standing vexation with paper straws became a favoured routine on the Presidential campaign trail, has rejected the concerns.
“I don’t think that plastic is going to affect a shark very much as they’re eating, as they’re munching their way through the ocean,” he said.
Will Scharf, the White House Staff Secretary, said the environmental impact was “entirely debatable” and American consumers were “wildly dissatisfied with their straws”, as he handed over the document for Mr Trump to sign.
Figures suggest Americans use millions of plastic straws each day.
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Trump is simply the best President the USA has ever had!
Sadly the Brits have been brainwashed about our president. But look at what they are stIck with. A nightmare.
Straw in the wind and another kick up the backside for the eco-zealots.
Keep up the good work, Sheriff Donald. Plenty more swamps to drain.
Sad little Britain does not have a warrior fighting for them. They have the exact gov’t. One that is making the people’s lives worse by the day.
He’s on a roll. You’ve got to hand it to him, though. The man’s gone full ‘honey badger’, he gets things done, and don’t the Libtards flaming hate it? But all they have are lies, insults and projection at their disposal;
”In the wake of a recent poll which only confirmed what Donald Trump’s election landslide proved – that celebrities have become politically irrelevant – Hollywood continues to rage impotently against the new President with their tired, old, ineffective smears that he and his new administration are “fascists” and “Nazis.”
One giveaway that the Left was hyperbolizing about Trump was their kneejerk (ab)use of the word “fascist,” which they won’t or can’t even define correctly. To the Left, “fascist” is the go-to label for anyone and anything that stands in the way of their lust for one-party hegemony – and no single person is more of an obstacle to that obsession than Donald Trump. In fact, “fascism” is best defined by the man so closely associated with it that he is called the Father of Fascism – Il Duce himself, Mussolini: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
There is no alarming resurgence of fascism. What the Left calls the rise of fascism is actually a resurgence of patriotic opposition to the woke madness and Big Government leviathan of the Biden administration. The MAGA movement is demonstrably not fascist; if anything, leftists are the real fascists. Consider the thuggish brownshirts of Antifa, whose very name ironically means “anti-fascist” – terrorist shock troops enforcing the anti-democratic agenda of the Democrat Party. They’re not anti-fascist; they are the fascists.
Trump is the anti-fascist President. Yes, he is wielding power – as any president would, and should. He is not wielding it, however, to grow the power of the state but to diminish it. His record number of executive orders have been directed at exposing and eradicating government corruption and inefficiency, disempowering federal law enforcement agencies that had been weaponized against American citizens, and dismantling subversive ideological programs like DEI initiatives. And he is doing all this with a mandate from the American people.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/hollywood-rages-impotently-about-anti-fascist-trump/
My concern is they’ll hobble either him or musk with a car bomb or a bullet.
The deep state players have so much to lose.
It’s a bit like the last days of the roman Republic.
I recommend tom holland’s rubicon.
He has run into a cadre of fascist judges – many appointed by the first gay US president – that are blocking his sensible reforms that are delivering the will of the people. One ‘hearing’ was held only for fascist DemoTwat AGs to attend to whine about cutting waste and the judge blocked Donald. The worry is that his Senate majority is small especially given the presence of the RINO scum until they can be primaried out in November 2026. I hope he is taking the DemoTwat election fraud seriously as I think there are at least 3 Senate seats that were stolen. They also stole House seats.
Go back to plastic straws?
Why not go back further and use biodegradable straw as straws?
But, anyway, I’ve never understood why so many now need to suck in order to drink.
Because they never properly grown up and still want to be sucking on their mother’s tits.
Please do not use paper straws. They contain forever chemicals, that can make you ill. yes we know the Brits think Trump is a silly older man, but thankfully he has accomplished in two weeks what most presidents do not accomplish in four yrs. we don’t agree with everything he does, but let us be honest, who would you rather have in charge. A gov’t decimating the elderly, private education, our farmers and food production, free speech, tossing political prisoners in prison, no police on the streets, an nhs on its knees and on and on. Oh and spending an inordinate amount of money on a phoney covid inquiry to answer the big question…..how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The unaccountability of how and where your money (taxes) goes. 650 MPs. The country is no longer taken seriously, it is failing and a joke.