A.G. Gancarski
With Americans set to “spring forward” once again, President Donald Trump says he’s not likely to push for changes in the ever-frustrating ritual.
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott has sought for years to bring an end to daylight saving time. He seemed to have an ally in Trump, who said just before taking office that the GOP would “use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time,” which is “inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”
But now in office, Trump says ending the clock-changing custom would waste his political capital.
“It’s a 50/50 issue, and if something is a 50/50 issue, it’s hard to get excited about it,” Trump told media, as reported by The Hill. “I assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier because they don’t want to take their kids to school in the dark.”
As he has since entering the Senate, Scott ran back the Sunshine Protection Act this year, which would have made daylight saving time the standard.
He said Americans “are sick and tired of changing their clocks twice a year — it’s an unnecessary, decades-old practice that’s more of an annoyance to families than benefit to them.”
Trump reads citizens’ mood differently.
“It’s something I can do, but a lot of people like it one way. A lot of people like it the other way,” Trump added. “It’s very even. And usually I find when that’s the case, what else do we have to do?”
In January, Scott said he was “excited to have President Trump back in the White House and fully on board to LOCK THE CLOCK so we can get this good bill passed and make this common-sense change that will simplify and benefit the lives of American families.”
But Trump apparently has reversed course to the detriment of a long-standing Scott priority.
5 comments
Michael K
March 7, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Promises? Trump?
Hahahahahah.
MH/Duuuval
March 7, 2025 at 4:34 pm
The promises of Putin’s poodle are made to be broken — and no sane person takes them seriously unless PP has visible money riding on it.
Brian Jones
March 8, 2025 at 5:22 pm
Why the political spin? It’s not an issue with a “right” answer. Some prefer daylight time, others prefer standard time, some see the utility in having the change twice annually. The issue is that no matter what is done, some people will be upset, others will be happy, but none of it will have really mattered. I just find it interesting that the DST issue has come up annually, literally like clockwork, under a range of administrations, and you choose to write about it with a heavy anti-Trump perspective. It just makes me sad.
Harold Finch
March 8, 2025 at 7:23 pm
Surprise, surprise! Trump lies again! He is a complete Jackass!
Andrew Finn
March 8, 2025 at 9:56 pm
Well, that is really some bad news. I thought we were finally going to get rid of this idiotic changing of the clocks twice a year. Maybe we can still get it done if a bill can get passed and Trump will pay attention to what people want and sign it. One can only hope —- LOCK THE CLOCK !!!!!!
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