DAYTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday posted online the supposed phone number of a Republican US senator, escalating a feud over daylight saving time.
Trump’s social media post urged people to call a phone number that he said belonged to Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican.
The dispute centers on the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice-yearly practice of changing clocks by one hour. Trump says most Americans want more afternoon sunlight, but Cotton has argued the change would plunge early risers into darkness during winter months.
“Everybody in Arkansas, Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. When Reuters called the Arkansas number, it went directly to a voicemail box that did not identify itself as belonging to Cotton.
