Post by @tonytins@pawb.social

2026-10-03 20:33 UTC

Trump just revealed the real reason he wants permanent Daylight Saving Time On Sunday, in a long, rambling Truth Social post, President Donald Trump revealed the real reason he’s been pushing for permanent Daylight Saving Time. Unsurprisingly, it’s for the benefit of golf. What’s more, in the same post, he doxxed a Republican senator by revealing his personal cell phone number. “Everybody in Arkansas, [Senator] Tom Cotton (R-AK), a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill,” posted the president. “It’s called, ‘The Sunshine Protection Act’ or, ‘We Don’t Want to Change Our Clocks Twice a Year Act.’ For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one! It should pass overwhelmingly, in a Bipartisan fashion. So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all. Nobody wants to spend their precious time running all over the place, turning Clocks back twice a year and, having sunshine in the afternoon is better than early in the morning!” Here Trump tipped his hand, revealing his actual justification for the bill: “The PGA TOUR, as an example, needs more Daylight in the afternoon in order to finish their Tournaments. Likewise, regular Golfers, Tennis Players, Hunters and, perhaps most importantly, Farmers who want more Daylight to play or work. See letter from Brian Rolapp, CEO of the PGA TOUR below. 65 percent PLUS want more sun in the afternoon, Daylight Saving Time (The way it is now!), but 100 percent don’t want to change their Clocks twice a year. They want to, as they say, ‘LOCK THE CLOCK!’ Who doesn’t? It’s very expensive for our Nation where you have high and dangerous steeples to reach, like on churches and municipal buildings. Almost everybody wants ‘The Sunshine Protection Act’ to pass, except for Tom Cotton. To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself. Call Tom on his cellphone…” The president went on to reveal what he asserts is Cotton’s actual phone number.

Replies (9)

@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-10-03 22:24

I don’t care why he’s doing it, I just want it done. I don’t see anything wrong with giving out Senator’s numbers. Do they serve the people or not? Do this more often. Like, constantly.

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@WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 06:02

I’ve worked swingshift for over 20 years and trust me when I say it, the switch from daylight savings in the winter and in the springtime is always a struggle for that week afterwards, this would be a welcomed improvement, but I’m not going to give this win to Donny if it even happens at all. I know that this has been an ongoing thing for longer than I can remember actually.

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@justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 2026-10-03 23:07

He's doing it because Canada has already done it Most of the provinces gave months of prep that this was happening.

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@RBWells@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 15:41

I don’t like changing the clocks around and do (since I can’t change my work schedule or when yoga class is) like DST better. Like most office jobs, where I work nobody notices if you come in early but if you stay later they think you are doing more than you actually are. But if we have to change them, it is at least this year on the best day it could possibly be, we get one more hour of Halloween. And school should start at 9am either way. That whole argument about kids waiting in the dark, because of DST, is because school starts at like 0730, what the fuck? Let the kids sleep until 7 at least.

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@Zak@lemmy.world 2026-10-03 21:01

Trump is an asshole, but we should adopt permanent something. I don’t care if it’s DST or standard time as long as we stop changing the clocks. The article notes people in northern states tend to be more opposed to permanent DST. It seems odd to me nobody has seriously proposed splitting time zones north/south, i.e. New York would be on Eastern Standard Time, and Florida would be on Atlantic Standard Time - an hour later, equivalent to Eastern Daylight Time.

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@ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 06:34

I mean, that’s why William Willett proposed DST in the first place, so it tracks.

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@JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2026-10-04 01:04

Who still has clocks they need to change and don’t have a reason for liking that specific clock? If you like analog clocks I doubt you care about setting it. If you don’t, what clock do you still own that needs resetting? I drive old cars so that’s one I guess,and the stove. That’s it

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@thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-05 07:09

broken clock is right twice a year

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@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2026-10-03 20:48

We need to go to permanent standard time. Just fall back on November 1st and never change the clocks again.

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