Trump officially brings back plastic straws and says paper alternative can 'explode'

President Donald Trump officially signed an enforcement bid Monday evening to determination the U.S. authorities distant from insubstantial straws - adjacent suggesting that they 'explode.' 

Trump had teased the determination connected Friday connected Truth Social pledging to motion an enforcement bid 'ending the ridiculous Biden propulsion for Paper Straws, which don't work,' adding 'BACK TO PLASTIC!' 

He further promoted the determination during his sit-down Sunday with Fox News' Bret Baier that was tied to the Super Bowl. 

On Monday, Trump signed an enforcement bid related to drinking straws, with Staff Secretary Will Scharf saying that the biology interaction betwixt insubstantial and integrative straws was 'entirely unclear' and was wasting the U.S. authorities money.

'We're going backmost to integrative straws. These things don’t work,' Trump past told reporters successful the Oval Office. 'I've had them galore times, and connected occasion, they break, they explode.' 

It's unclear what Trump meant astir insubstantial straws exploding, but wide complaints astir them are that they tin get mushy. 

'If thing is blistery they don't past precise long. Like a substance of minutes, sometimes a substance of seconds, it's a ridiculous situation,' Trump said. 'And I don't deliberation that integrative is going to impact a shark precise overmuch arsenic they are eating, arsenic they are munching their mode done the ocean.' 

Trump's determination Monday is portion of his broader propulsion to rotation backmost immoderate benignant of biology regulations backed by the erstwhile administration. 

Last twelvemonth President Joe Biden announced a program to signifier retired the national government's usage of each single-use plastics by 2035. 

Plastics are contributing to a large contamination occupation and are created by burning fossil fuels.  

Using little integrative tin termination 2 birds with 1 chromatic erstwhile it comes to biology impact. 

A fistful of states had antecedently banned integrative straws, arsenic the single-use items lend to integrative contamination and person been shown to beryllium harmful to immoderate wildlife. 

But Trump stirred up crowds by getting them to chant 'Drill Baby Drill' and mocked progressive Democrats' program to instrumentality a 'Green New Deal,' a government-backed inaugural to bid American workers connected greenish jobs. 

'You cognize what's 1 happening I did past nighttime that's truly popular?' Trump asked Baier successful their sit-down that aired successful afloat Monday night. 'The straw.' 

'They gave america a insubstantial straw. It melts, it's horrible, you commencement - they should marque it successful flavors due to the fact that by the clip you're finished - it is truthful horrible,' Trump said. 'I ended the insubstantial straw, we're going to spell backmost to plastic.'

Baier said that was a 90/10 contented - meaning it would beryllium overwhelmingly popular. 

'But this was a Biden issue. A large Biden issue. As if Biden truly knew,' Trump said, mocking the 82-year-old erstwhile president. 

When Trump was moving against Biden successful 2020, his run sold integrative straws arsenic a mode to mock the Democratic Party's environmentalism. 

'Liberal insubstantial straws don't work,' the Trump 2020 run website's store said astatine the time. 'STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP and bargain your battalion of recyclable straws today.'