Donald Trump seems to spend an unusual amount of time thinking about toilets.

Back in 2019, he bizarrely claimed: “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once.” He repeated this claim at a Michigan rally the following year. “Ten times, right, 10 times,” Trump complained. “Not me, of course not me, but you,” he added while pointing at an unfortunate audience member.

A couple of years later, he was back to the toilet talk: angrily disputing claims by the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that he’d once clogged a White House toilet by attempting to dispose of documents in it.

I regret to inform you that the president is once again responsible for a national conversation about toilets. In a fitting encapsulation of Trumpism, explosive diarrhea has become a midterm talking point. Food recalls and stomach-churning parasites have been a mainstay of the news this year and Democrats are milking the issue.

In August, for example, the Democratic party’s official Twitter/X account highlighted the number of foods that have been recalled in 2026 and demanded that RFK Jr resign from his role as health secretary. Last month (which happened to be Food Safety Month – who knew?), the Rhode Island congressman Gabe Amo argued that Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce had contributed to decreased food........

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