Trump Vows to Eliminate ‘Inconvenient’ Daylight Saving Time
- Trump says Republicans will use ‘best efforts’ to remove it
- Issue has also caught attention of both Musk and Ramaswamy
The idea of daylight saving is often credited to Ben Franklin, who thought an extra hour of sunlight could save on candles.
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President-elect Donald Trump said Republicans will seek to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, calling the semiannual time changes “inconvenient” and “costly.”
“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!,” Trump posted Friday on his Truth Social platform. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”