What Trump's Ideas and Toilet Paper Have in Common

FAZ US Administration: What Trump's Ideas and Toilet Paper Have in Common Ole Kaiser April 10, 2025, 5:59 p.m. Reading time: 2 min. Donald Trump and toilet paper have a lot in common. Thanks to Musk's efficiency department, toilet paper is running out in American federal agencies. Bannon's famous exclamation takes on a whole new meaning. Toilet paper and Trump's ideas have a lot in common. The good ideas in the US government are like the toilet paper rolls in its agencies. There are too few. Every minute, the orange-faced man with the blow-dried hair trumpets some new stroke of genius from his pursed lips. These shock the world around him before he corrects them or retracts them and defames those who criticize his ideas. Mass lies included. The mastermind's latest brainwave, ordering the approximately 2.3 million civilian federal employees from working from home back to the office, as his megalomaniac democracy-slimming boss whispered to him, is making it impossible for these poor souls to work. The New York Times reported. Trump, Stock Prices, and Toilet Paper Too few parking spaces, too little food in the cafeteria, too few offices. Some work sitting on the floor, some go home. That's no wonder. Nearly a million employees had contractually agreed hybrid or fully remote positions when Trump took office. The chaos was inevitable. But who cares about contracts? Or that some people, like those in the Department of Energy, live thousands of miles from the Washington metropolitan area, where they're now supposed to come to work? What that has to do with government efficiency, no one knows.