Cartoons: Trump’s exaggeration about low-flow toilets

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In what CNN called a “tangent about low-flow sinks and toilets,” President Donald Trump spouted off about his administration’s efforts to review energy and environmental regulations related to bathrooms.

“We have a situation where we’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on — and in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it, and you don’t get any water,” Trump said during a Dec. 6 roundtable with small-business leaders about deregulation.

Political cartoonists listening and watching Trump speak on the matter related the false statistic back to the ongoing impeachment inquiry hearings. But the comments marked the second time the president has erred in speaking on toilets. In July, Trump misstated that the upcoming 2020 Census would ask how many toilets Americans have in their homes:

“We spend — this is another thing that’s so crazy: $20 billion on a census — $20 billion. … They go through houses — they go up, they ring doorbells, they talk to people. ‘How many toilets do they have?’ ‘How many desks do they have?’ ‘How many beds?’ ‘What’s their roof made of?’ The only thing we can’t ask is, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States?’ No, isn’t it the craziest thing?”

The census statement earned four Pinocchios on The Fact Checker, the Washington Post’s running Trump fact-check blog. Meanwhile the Associated Press set the record straight by including the false claim its own fact check at the time.

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