Posted on 02/07/2025 8:35:17 AM PST by DallasBiff
Washington:
President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to using plastic ones.
"I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don't work. BACK TO PLASTIC!" Trump said on social media.
Democrat Biden had announced a target to eliminate single-used plastic utensils like drinking straws by 2035 in government departments.
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Nitpicking? Why worry about plastic straws when thousands of “disposable” diapers hit the landfills every day.
“I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work. BACK TO PLASTIC!” Trump said on social media.
Actually, as a kid in the '50s, I used to love drinking a chocolate malt with a paper straw.
Too much plastic in our brains…. https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/microplastic-found-brain-weighs-much-plastic-spoon-study.
I always hated paper straws as a kid and probably the reason I don’t use straws today ,LOL
OMG I HATE those straws!! McDonalds uses them and after 20 minutes they....MELT!!
They fall apart in your fingers!
Stupidity times 1000!
Didn’t they move to plastic because the paper straws were killing the trees? So now the plastic straws are non biodegradable and they want to oscillate back to paper. These people are useless.
aka..."Fun in the Cafeteria"
I hate paper staws too but I personally believe plastics, specifically micro-plastics, are a serious hazard.
He should have suggested silicone. :), although metal are truly the best.
When I was a kid it seemed like the paper straws were dipped in wax and did work unless they stayed in liquid for a long time. Brown paper grocery bags were indestructible too, made great book covers.
Now they can’t seem to make decent paper straws or paper grocery bags that don’t rip when you touch them.
Plastic is not better; it is cheaper. This does sound like a bone being tossed to a donor. With everything else going on, this is a BS EO. This could have been done with a little less fanfare. It makes sense if Trump is saying the Fed does not need to be financially involved in this issue let the States decide between paper or plastic. Let them pay to enforce it.
And they’re just so creepy feeling in your mouth.
I hate the paper straws too, but the amount of plastic straws that end up in our waterways is astounding!
Until you chip a tooth on one.
Another step in that direction would be an annual budget and no Continuing Resolutions. Almost like having grown-ups in charge.
It’s not about the straws, it’s about the self-righteous, self-congratulatory, virtue signaling of progressives. They are focused on straws and gender neutral bathrooms but not on preventing wildfires, cleaning out litter and unsanitary homeless encampments, fentanyl…you get the drift.
You could probably make them out of cornstarch.
Paper straws were killing the trees?
They were giving the trees jobs!
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