Trump cyber heckles Sen. Tom Cotton over daylight saving time

Reported by MS NOW. The paragraphs below are the opening of that article, reproduced word for word — not a summary, and not the whole piece.

The president appeared to post Cotton’s personal cell number online, slamming him for opposing a bill to make daylight saving time permanent.

President Donald Trump took a sundown fight with Sen. Tom Cotton public on Saturday.

The president posted on social media what appeared to be the Arkansas Republican’s cell phone number, expressing anger over the senator’s opposition to legislation making daylight saving time permanent.

“For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one!” Trump wrote on Truth Social about the Sunshine Protection Act, which has been held up in the Senate. He described Cotton as “a friend of mine,” but nevertheless urged his followers to “call Tom on his cellphone” before posting a phone number with a northeast Arkansas area code.

An MS NOW call to that number went to voicemail, and its mailbox was full. Cotton’s office did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s requests for comment. But the senator explained his opposition to the bill in a post on X on Saturday afternoon, without addressing Trump’s efforts to direct a horde of angry callers his way.

The senator said he includes himself among those who do no like changing the clocks each spring and fall. “But Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter,” Cotton said. “Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.”