George Washington
1789 — 1797
The father of the country, arguably one of the most important men in America’s history, and he pooped in an outhouse. Washington’s outhouses at Mount Vernon, also called “necessaries,” had 3 seats in them, all lined up in a row because who doesn’t want to get cozy and #poopwiththepresident?
Millard Fillmore
1850 — 1853
Credited with “the first flush of 1853,” Fillmore’s was the first presidential posterior to grace a toilet in Washington, DC. Fillmore introduced toilets and modern plumbing to the White House, satisfying his need for the feel of smooth, cool porcelain underneath his democratic derriere.
William Howard Taft
1909 — 1913
Scrub a dub dub in Taft’s giant tub! After trying (and failing) to squeeze himself into the regular presidential bathtub, the 350-pound Taft commissioned himself a seven-foot long tub that weighed almost a ton. I don’t even want to know what their water bills looked like…
Richard Nixon
1969 — 1974
Unlike his predecessors, Nixon was totally uninterested in augmenting the ~literal~ plumbing in the White House. However, he did employ a secret task force of so-called “plumbers” to track down leaks of classified information to the media. Read: pipe wrenches and drain snakes surprisingly unwelcome…unless you were using them to keep someone quiet.
Donald Trump
2017 — 2021
Trump was always a little confused about where he stashed his 2-ply—maybe that’s why he started flushing official documents and memos down his toilet. Talk about some constitutional clogs!
Joe Biden
2021 —
With a backlog of $271B in wastewater infrastructure upgrades in the US, it’s clear Biden’s got sewage on the brain. But Joe’s not putting up with any of that malarkey! The Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill will provide funding to improve the nation’s wastewater treatment systems.
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