Donald Trump published the number of a Republican senator and

Donald Trump published the number of a Republican senator and told Americans to call it The US President, Donald Trump, published an online phone number that is presumed to belong to a Republican senator, in a series of posts made on Saturday, in the context of the dispute over the permanent introduction of daylight saving time, according to Reuters. In the first post, Trump instructed people to call a phone number that he said belonged to Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, who opposes a bill supported by Trump that would eliminate the change of time twice a year. The dispute concerns a bill that would end the practice of advancing or setting the clock forward or backward by one hour twice a year. Trump argues that most Americans want more natural light in the afternoon, while Cotton argues that the change would mean that, in the winter months, those who wake up early would have to start the day in the dark. "Attention, everyone in Arkansas. Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding an very important bill," Trump wrote on his platform, Truth Social. Cotton did not directly respond to Trump's statements, but posted a message on X. "Nobody likes to change the time, nor do I, but Congress has introduced daylight saving time more than once in the past and has given up on it every time Americans have come to experience absurdly late sunrises in the winter," he wrote. "The residents of Arkansas do not want their little ones to go to school in pitch darkness and I will always put Arkansas first," he continued. When Reuters called the phone number indicated by Trump as belonging to Cotton, the call was directed to a voice mailbox which did not specify that it belonged to the senator. Most US states have implemented the change in time since the 1960s. In this year, in the US, clocks are supposed to be set back to standard time on November 1st. Support from golfers and farmers Trump said that golfers support the change, distributing a letter from October 1st signed by Brian Rolapp, the general manager of the PGA Tour. "The PGA Tour, for example, needs more natural light in the afternoon to be able to finish tournaments," said Trump, who often spends his weekends at his golf clubs across the country. He also pointed to tennis players, hunters, and farmers as supporters of keeping daylight saving time throughout the year. In the Saturday afternoon post, the president also invoked public safety as an argument. "Infractors don't like to work in the light," Trump wrote. Later, he returned with a third post on this topic, stating that "very important people" told him they don't like to come home in the dark. It is not the first time Trump has published a senator's phone number to support a point of view. During his first presidential campaign, in 2015, Trump read the phone number of Senator Lindsey Graham at a rally and called the South Carolina Republican "an idiot." The two later disagreed, and Graham, who died in July 2026, became one of Trump's most well-known allies in Congress.