Donald Trump Posted Tom Cotton’s Cellphone Number and Told Arkansas to Force Permanent Daylight Saving Time

Donald Trump did not spend Saturday on sleep, school buses, or the winter sun. He posted a phone number and called it a plan for daylight saving.

Le 3 octobre 2026, il a utilisé Truth Social pour cibler le sénateur Tom Cotton d'Arkansas, président du Comité sénatorial du renseignement, et a dit à l'État d'appeler un numéro Le portable personnel de Cotton. Il voulait un temps d'été permanent et un chœur de "GET IT DONE". CNN, the New York Times, Reuterset USA Aujourd'hui described the post. The digits are not repeated here. No newsroom reached a person who said he was Cotton, and USA Today could not confirm the line was his.

C'est l'histoire sous l'horloge. Le président a traité un numéro privé pour le sénateur qui préside la surveillance du renseignement comme un tuyau. La pression fonctionne même si les chiffres sont faux. D'autres républicains peuvent voir ce qui arrive à un homme Trump appelle un ami.

CNN l'a cité en parlant de Cotton « un ami à moi » qui « tenait un projet de loi très important », que Trump a renommé « Nous ne voulons pas changer nos horloges deux fois par an ». Il a dit "le Grand Peuple d'Arkansas" le vote serait "un GRAND WIN bipartite", se vantait qu'il avait porté l'État trois fois, et fini avec le tas-on. "Appelez Tom sur son portable."

CNN a dit que la boîte aux lettres était pleine, puis a atteint un enregistrement que le client sans fil était indisponible. Le New York Times a entendu un salut pour quelqu'un « temporairement indisponible », sans commentaire immédiat du bureau de Cotton. Reuters, qui a déposé des dossiers de Dayton, a dit que le répondeur ne l'avait jamais identifié.

Asked why he published the number, Trump would not say. CNN signalé qu'il se plaignait plutôt des horloges, juste avant de quitter la Maison Blanche pour un rassemblement républicain à mi-parcours dans l'Ohio. (Les gens) ne veulent pas avoir à changer les horloges. J'ai eu la même chose la dernière fois, il y a six mois, nous changeons d'horloge, et personne n'a changé d'horloge et tout le monde est en retard », a-t-il dit. The AEGIS Alliance’s Vandalia report caught the same trip, after a protester was removed over the Epstein files. A missed reset became national policy, and the objector was named.

The Sunshine Protection Act cleared the House as a bargaining chip

The bill is H.R. 139, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, sponsored by Representative Vern Buchanan of Florida. Congrès.gov montre que la Chambre l'a adopté le 14 juillet 2026, par 308 à 117. Le Sénat l'a reçue le lendemain et l'a laissée au Comité du commerce. Il ferait du temps d'été l'horloge toute l'année, ce qui signifie un lever de soleil plus tard, pas un nouveau jour.

Trump talks as if Cotton is the whole dam. He can block a fast unanimous-consent vote, but he is not alone. NOTUS reported on July 20 le chef de la majorité John Thune a dit que la question "divise le pays plus par région" que presque n'importe quoi d'autre, et "il a beaucoup d'opposition." Le sénateur Tommy Tuberville a dit Le coton le bloquerait, puis plaisantait sur le golf supplémentaire.

NOTAM a énuméré les sénateurs du Comité du commerce dans les deux partis qui ont voté contre l'heure d'été, parmi lesquels Thune, Roger Wicker, Deb Fischer, Jerry Moran, Dan Sullivan, nounours, Tim Sheehy, Todd jeune, Amy Klobuchar, Gary Peters, Tammy canardworth, roseau gris et lisa contondant rochester. Les hivers du Nord ne sont pas un snub personnel. La ligne de Trump que "il ne prend qu'un" prétend le contraire.

Trump also skips why the House voted. The New York Times reported que les dirigeants ont offert le projet de loi comme édulcorant à la représentante Anna Paulina Luna, qui avait gelé la parole pour imposer un projet de loi sur les restrictions de vote qu'il voulait. La « victoire bipartite » a commencé comme un commerce MAGA.

Forbes Breaking News posted the gaggle where a reporter asked why the number was online. Trump still did not answer.

Permanent daylight saving would push winter sunrise past the school bus

Cotton a répondu sans nommer Trump ou le numéro. "Personne n'aime changer l'horloge, y compris moi, mais le Congrès a adopté des économies de jour permanentes Temps plusieurs fois avant et l'a abrogé chaque fois que les Américains ont connu Levements de soleil absurdement tardifs en hiver », a-t-il écrit. "Les Arkansans ne veulent pas que leurs enfants aillent à l'école dans le noir, et je mettrai toujours l'Arkansas en premier."

That sunrise line is the part worth keeping. Cotton is otherwise a loyal MAGA vote, and “Arkansas first” is a slogan he uses when it helps. The cost he names is still real. Year-round daylight saving time sets the clock an hour ahead of the sun, so winter bus stops fall in the dark. The New York Times summarized his floor warning that the change “would push winter sunrises to an absurdly late hour, depriving Americans of morning sunshine that’s essential for our safety and well-being.”

Congress already tried this. Year-round daylight saving time began on January 6, 1974, during the oil shock. Anger over black mornings pushed lawmakers to reverse it the same year, and standard time returned in late October 1974. Cotton is citing that repeal. Trump writes as if one senator invented it.

Trump answered, CNN reported, that a senator putting Arkansas first would “give them an extra hour of daylight” and end the chore of resetting clocks. He attached a letter from PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp. The Hill reported the letter backed the bill and tied it to about 1 billion dollars a year in new golf revenue. A later tee time outranked a child in the dark.

WUSA9 walked through the exchange the next morning.

Sleep scientists want standard time, not a later sunset

Stopping the twice-yearly switch and locking in daylight saving time are different choices. Trump hides the second inside the popularity of the first.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, says the country should adopt permanent standard time because it fits human biology. “By causing the human body clock to be misaligned with the natural environment, daylight saving time increases risks to our physical health, mental well-being, and public safety,” said Dr. M. Adeel Rishi, chair of the academy’s public safety committee. “Permanent standard time is the optimal choice for health and safety.”

The academy links the spring jump into daylight saving time with higher risk of heart attack and stroke. The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, the National Sleep Foundation, the Sleep Research Society, and the American Medical Association take the same view. Trump’s bill would lock in the later winter sunrise they warn against. The academy’s summary contradicts the golf letter.

Polls hate the clock switch and still do not crown this bill

Trump writes as if the public already chose his clock. It did not.

An AP-NORC poll of 1,289 adults in October 2025 found only 12 percent favor changing clocks twice a year, 47 percent oppose that system, and 40 percent are neutral. Forced to choose, 56 percent picked permanent daylight saving time and about 4 in 10 picked standard time.

Gallup’s January 2025 poll will not fit the slogan. Fifty-four percent opposed daylight saving time and 40 percent favored it, down from 73 percent support in 1999. Given three choices, 48 percent wanted standard time all year, 24 percent wanted daylight saving time all year, and 19 percent wanted to keep switching. His outcome finished last. Dislike of the chore is not a vote for his bill.

“Almost everybody wants” the Sunshine Protection Act is what he says when the Senate, the medical evidence, and the surveys refuse a simple order. Posting a supposed cellphone number is not consent. It is a search for callers.

Posting a private number is a habit, not a one-time slip

He has done this before. In the 2016 primary, after Lindsey Graham called him unfit for smearing Senator John McCain’s service, Trump read Graham’s cellphone number to a crowd. Graham smashed phones on video, then became an ally. Graham died on July 11, 2026, at 71, after an aortic dissection. The tactic remained.

Aiming that tactic at the Senate Intelligence Committee chair is worse than a rally bit. The job includes classified oversight, which is a reason not to make a personal line a show. Trump did it for a clock, a golf letter pitched around 1 billion dollars, and a complaint about lateness. Asked to explain, he would not. The post was the point.

A correct point about sunrise does not redeem Cotton. He is a MAGA Republican who picked one fight with a president he usually follows. Trump’s answer to that objection was a private number, not a vote count. The bill can still die in the Commerce Committee, where Thune says the opposition is real and where sleep research points to standard time. The pattern sits in politics coverage from The AEGIS Alliance et les news file. This is not sunshine. It is whether the Senate moves the morning because a president told a state to call a stranger.