Shitstain's Disturbing, Infantile Fixations On Fish, Showerheads, Dishwashers Drive His Environmental "Policies"

From crusading against showers he feels don’t sufficiently wash his hair to reversing protections for a small fish he calls “worthless”, Donald Trump’s personal fixations have helped shape his first environmental priorities as US president. While withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accords and declaring an “energy emergency” were among Trump’s most noteworthy executive orders on his first day in office, both were further down a list of priorities put out by the White House than measures to improve “consumer choice in vehicles, shower heads, toilets, washing machines, lightbulbs and dishwashers”.

Meanwhile, a separate Trump executive order titled Putting People Over Fish instructs federal agencies to divert more water from northern California to the southern part of the state, which has been ravaged by drought and wildfire. The order blames the “catastrophic halt” of water due to protections for the delta smelt, a small endangered creature that Trump recently called an “essentially worthless fish”. While Trump has long complained about poor water pressure in home appliances and has repeatedly attacked California for its water policies, experts said that trying to further these grievances through the presidency will hit inconvenient roadblocks.

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The disastrous wildfires in Los Angeles, meanwhile, have resurfaced Trump’s animus towards the delta smelt, which he said is being lavished with water that should be rerouted to southern California to fight the blazes. “Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it,” Trump said on Tuesday. “All they have to do is turn the valve.” Experts say this rhetoric misstates a more complex situation in California, where water resources, under pressure from rising global heating, are being closely managed for big users such as agriculture and, to a lesser extent, cities. Water reservoirs in California were full of water when the wildfires erupted and there is no “valve” that could have released more water from the north.

“Very little additional water is released to support the delta smelt,” said John Durand, a scientist at the University of California, Davis, who has researched the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta ecosystem, where the smelt – a translucent, silvery fish only a couple of inches long – has been pushed to extinction by water diversions, pollution and development. “The smelt isn’t as charismatic to many people as salmon,” Durand added. “It’s more of an indicator species that points to more species extinctions to come if we don’t moderate water use … “It may be amusing to leverage this fish but it doesn’t surprise me as there has been 150 years of leveraging everything in Californian water wars to help support power and money.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-climate-windmills-fish