Up to date Oct. 3, 2026, 2:42 p.m. ET
President Donald Trump shared what he mentioned is the private cellular phone variety of Sen. Tom Cotton in an effort to place stress on the Republican to help laws that will make daylight saving time everlasting.
“Name Tom on his cellphone,” Trump wrote on Reality Social on Oct. 3, urging Arkansans to name their senator personally. After writing the lawmaker’s alleged quantity, Trump continued, “let him know. ‘The Sunshine Safety Act’ was handed within the Home by a Vote of 308 to 117. HAVE THE SENATE VOTE, NOW!”
It’s unconfirmed if the cellphone quantity posted by Trump really belongs to the senator. USA TODAY tried to name and textual content the quantity, however messages have been unsuccessfully delivered. The White Home has not responded to request for remark.
Following Trump’s put up, Cotton defended his place on blocking the Sunshine Safety Act.
Cotton, who didn’t reference Trump nor say something concerning the president releasing his cellular phone quantity, wrote on X that, “nobody likes altering the clock, me included,” however that Congress had tried and repealed this beforehand “as soon as People skilled absurdly late sunrises within the winter.”
Trump beforehand shared one other lawmaker’s quantity
That is additionally not the primary time that Trump has given out the cellphone variety of one other senator.
On the 2015 marketing campaign path, Trump instructed a crowd in South Carolina to name their senator, the now-late Sen. Lindsey Graham and gave out his quantity. Graham, who was additionally operating for president at the moment, was then a fierce critic of Trump, who was making his first presidential bid.
“Give it a shot,” Trump mentioned to the South Carolina crowd in 2015. “Your native politician, you already know? He will not repair something however no less than he’ll speak to you.” Graham tweeted a reply, “In all probability getting a brand new cellphone. iPhone or Android?”
Trump desires to ‘lock the clock,’ however Cotton says it is unsafe
Trump has lengthy referred to as to finish the clock change and have everlasting daylight saving time. On Oct. 2, he posted a message urging Republican Senators to move the “‘No Extra Altering of Clocks Act,’ formally referred to as The Sunshine Safety Act,” saying that the biannual time change is “ridiculous” and “unhealthy for crime.”
“It’s being held up by Senator Tom Cotton, of Arkansas, for causes unknown,” Trump wrote on Oct. 2. “Individuals are sick and bored with having to alter their Clocks twice a yr.”
In July, the Home of Representatives voted to permit states to enact year-round daylight saving time, however the laws has but to move by means of the Senate. In Trump’s new Oct. 3 put up, he once more attacked Cotton, saying that “for some motive, Tom is stopping the Invoice” and connected a letter from the Skilled Golfers Affiliation to Trump that advocated for the laws.
Cotton, who’s in Senate management because the chairman of the Senate Republicans Convention, has opposed the transfer to put in everlasting daylight saving time. Cotton throughout an October 2025 Senate flooring speech recalled when this was achieved in 1974 by Congress and “thousands and thousands of People traveled to work and faculty in darkness.” He mentioned that everlasting daylight saving would “once more make winter a darkish and dismal time for thousands and thousands of People” and “push winter sunrises to an absurdly late hour, depriving People of morning sunshine that’s important for our security and well-being.”
When USA TODAY reached out to Cotton’s workplace for touch upon Trump’s Oct. 2 put up, reporters have been referred again to that October 2025 speech.
In Cotton’s Oct. 3 put up, he mentioned shared the same sentiment to the 2025 speech, including that he’ll “all the time put Arkansas first.”
Contributing: Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY archives
