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# Trump Signs Executive Order to Ban Paper Straws

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_Published 2025-02-12. President Donald Trump is known to drink many Diet Cokes, but one thing you’re not likely to ever see him using again is a paper straw. On Monday, Trump said he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don't last very long, and instead he wants the government to exclusively move to plastic. Trump’s crusade against paper straws is nothing new. His 2020 presidential campaign branded them as “liberal” and sold nearly half a million dollars worth of Trump-branded plastic straws._


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## Transcript

The environmental impact of plastic straws versus paper straws is entirely unclear. This has cost both the government and private industry an absolute ton of money and left consumers all over the country wildly dissatisfied with their straws. So we're asking, uh, aspects of the federal government, federal departments and agencies to look at their existing procurement processes. And we're asking your domestic Policy Council to look holistically at this issue to address it. And it really is something that affects ordinary Americans in their everyday lives. We're going back to plastic straws. 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. So we're going back to plastic straws. I think it's okay. And 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. Okay. Thank you sir.

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