President Trump publicly shared Sen. Tom Cotton’s personal cellphone number and urged Arkansas residents to call him over stalling a bipartisan bill to make daylight saving time permanent.
Breitbart News reported that President Donald Trump used Truth Social to release Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) cellphone number and press Arkansans to demand action on The Sunshine Protection Act.
Trump cast the twice-a-year clock change as a waste of time that most Americans want ended, and he named Cotton as the holdup in the Senate.
The House already passed the measure by a wide margin. Trump is now taking the fight straight to Cotton’s constituents.
In the post, Trump said Cotton, “a friend of mine”, is stopping a bill that should clear easily. He framed permanent daylight saving time as common sense for workers and outdoor Americans who want more light later in the day.
Trump addressed the people of Arkansas directly and told them the bill is stuck because of one senator.
“Everybody in Arkansas, Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill. It’s called, ‘The Sunshine Protection Act’ or, ‘We Don’t Want to Change Our Clocks Twice a Year Act.’ For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one!”
He followed with a hard push to contact Cotton by phone.
“So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all. Nobody wants to spend their precious time running all over the place, turning Clocks back twice a year and, having sunshine in the afternoon is better than early in the morning!”
Fox News reported the same Truth Social blast, including Trump’s line that the country should ditch the “ridiculous” custom of flipping clocks forward and back every year.
Trump also said almost everybody wants the Sunshine Protection Act to pass, “except for Tom Cotton”, and called it a “GREAT Bipartisan WIN” for the Senate and for America if it moves.
He instructed residents to “call Tom on his cellphone.”
Trump has kept a high public tempo on other priorities as well, from midterm travel messaging to big policy rollouts, and this post fits that pattern of going straight to voters.
The legislative path did not start with this post.
In May, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee took up The Sunshine Protection Act, Trump said he would work “very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law.”
In July, the House of Representatives voted 308-117 to pass the bill to make daylight saving time permanent.
That margin shows broad support on the House side. Trump’s complaint is that the Senate can still be stalled by a single member, and he says Cotton is the one doing it.
No response from Cotton appears in the available reporting on the post, so his own public explanation is not on the record here.
Readers tracking Trump’s other high-visibility moves will recognize the style: name the obstacle, go over the head of official Washington, and put pressure where votes live, much as he has done when doubling down on major public pledges on the trail.
Trump’s case is simple. He says people do not want to keep resetting clocks twice a year.
He also argued afternoon sunlight beats early-morning light for daily life. He pointed to golfers, tennis players, hunters, and farmers who “want more Daylight to play or work.”
That is a kitchen-table argument: less disruption, more usable daylight after work and school, and an end to a ritual most families treat as a nuisance.
The Sunshine Protection Act is the vehicle. The House has already acted. Trump wants the Senate to finish the job and lock in permanent daylight saving time.
He has used big public platforms before to drive federal initiatives and rebrand priorities, including efforts like the push tied to America.gov and technology branding, and this clock-change campaign follows the same direct approach.
Trump’s method was blunt. He did not bury the dispute in a private meeting note. He posted Cotton’s cellphone number and told Arkansas to use it.
He reminded voters he has carried the state three times and won it by 34 points the last time, then asked them to deliver a message: move the bill.
In Trump’s telling, Senate rules make it easy for one member to stop something the House already passed by more than 300 votes. That is the accountability frame he put on Cotton.
Whether Cotton yields or digs in is the next chapter. What is already clear is the president’s position: stop the clock chaos, pass the Sunshine Protection Act, and do not let one holdout kill a measure he calls an easy bipartisan win.
Other Trump-world fights keep landing in the courts and security arena, from Secret Service disputes involving the Trump family to hard-edged federal cases, but this one is about daily life and a stalled Senate bill.
Voters who hate the spring-forward, fall-back routine now have a president telling them exactly whom to call, and giving them the number to do it.