In July 2025, a post to X (archived) attributed a quote about rain and washing machines to U.S. President Donald Trump, claiming he said it in reference to the deadly flooding that occurred in Texas earlier in the month. By July 11, the post had been viewed more than 1.4 million times and its claim spread to other social media websites such as Threads (archived).
Trump on deadly Texas floods:
"You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes." pic.twitter.com/6FuGpKJ2kV— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) July 10, 2025
The full text of the post was:
Trump on deadly Texas floods:
"You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes."
This is a real Trump quote, but he didn't say it in reference to the July 2025 flooding in Texas. Trump actually said the quote a year earlier while on the campaign trail.
Trump made the remark about rain and washing machines during a June 22, 2024, rally in Philadelphia. The portion of the rally in which he said it begins at 42:10 in this video of the event. It comes at the end of a complaint about flow restrictors, which are devices designed to regulate the flow rate of water through various home outlets. He started the complaint after referencing then-U.S. President Joe Biden and the Democratic climate change proposal called the Green New Deal (although Snopes could not find a link between the Green New Deal and flow restrictor requirements).
The exact quote was:
No water in your faucets. You ever tried buying a new home and you turn it on? They have restrictors in there. You want to wash your hair. You want to wash your hands. You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip. The soap, you can't get it off your hand. So you keep it running for about ten times longer. You're trying. The worst is your hair. I have this beautiful, luxuriant hair, and I put stuff on. I put it in. Lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly thicker that way. And I lather up and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing drip, drip, and you say, 'I'm gonna be here for 45 minutes. What?' They put restrictors and they put them on in places like here where there's so much water you don't know what to do with it. You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes. There is a problem. They don't want you to have any water. They want no water.
A Google search for part of the quote restricted to just results from July 2025 returned nothing outside of social media posts attributing the quote to Trump. If the president of the United States had spoken publicly about the floods, major news outlets would have reported on it or the White House would have made a transcript available.
Snopes previously reported on Trump's quote in June 2024.