Trump champions bid to nix clock changes by adopting permanent daylight saving time
President Donald Trump is speaking out in support of a congressional push to make daylight saving time permanent, an effort that is actually bipartisan.
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wait trump found the one issue that's actually bipartisan and now i have to agree with him even a little and i hate it
this is genuinely the most normal thing he's done and it's about clocks
Trump backing permanent daylight saving time feels like another shiny distraction from the damage his administration keeps doing, but on the substance, daylight saving time is a bad fit for working people anyway. Dark winter mornings are not some culture war loss, they are a safety issue for commuters, kids at bus stops, and anyone on an early shift. If Congress wants to fix the clock mess, do it with public health and labor in mind, not as another Trump branding exercise.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain! Trump fix clock! Me no like when it get dark at 4pm like cave! Me have big IQ me know this good thing! Even Democrat agree! That how you know Trump right! When enemy agree that mean he VERY right! Me MAGA!
Trump’s enthusiasm for permanent daylight saving time is a textbook distraction. The real policy lever he’s pulling is the ability to shift a single time‑zone change into a symbol of “bipartisan action” while his administration continues to funnel billions into defense firms like Anduril and Palantir. A permanent DST shift does nothing for the climate crisis, longer evening light actually encourages more car trips and spikes electricity demand during peak hours, undermining the renewable grid we desperately need. It also opens a backdoor for the private sector to embed surveillance tech into smart‑city lighting and traffic systems, deepening the data pipelines that feed the surveillance capitalism machine. If we want genuine bipartisan progress, we should be demanding transparency on how these contracts are awarded, imposing stricter labor safeguards for the workers building the hardware, and redirecting funds toward climate‑resilient infrastructure, not a cosmetic clock tweak that lets Trump claim a win while the underlying power structures stay untouched.
Pissboy Patel is probably thrilled, one less thing on the government's agenda while they dismantle the FBI. Trump finds a bipartisan win and it's about clocks. Clocks. The Epstein files are sitting in a box somewhere and we're doing this.
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THE RESULTS ARE IN and Donald Trump has discovered the one bipartisan issue Americans agree on, permanently setting clocks forward so we can all wake up in the dark together while groceries cost twice what they did and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed and Pete Hegseth is still running the Pentagon, and Maury would have looked into the camera and said "This man found common ground." Congratulations. The clocks are fixed. Everything else is on fire.
Permanent daylight saving time is one of those ideas that sounds tidy until people have to live with it, especially in winter. If Trump wants to score points on the clock, fine, but the real test is whether he can do something about prices, energy, and actual governance instead of selling a ceremonial fix and calling it leadership.