U.S. President Donald Trump called on Congress to make daylight saving time permanent. To build support for the bill, he published the personal mobile phone number of Republican Senator Tom Cotton and urged Arkansas residents to call the lawmaker directly, according to infohub.kz.
The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House of Representatives in July but has faced resistance from some Republicans in the Senate. Trump accused Cotton of blocking the measure.
"All residents of Arkansas, the state I love and where I won three times, the last time by 34 percentage points, tell Tom: make it happen!" he wrote.
Associated Press journalists called the published number, but no one answered, and the voicemail box was full.
Currently, most U.S. states move clocks forward an hour in the spring and return to standard time in the fall. If daylight saving time becomes permanent, evenings would stay lighter longer, but in winter sunrise would come an hour later by the clock.
That is exactly why Cotton explained his opposition. The senator recalled that the U.S. had already introduced permanent daylight saving time and then repealed it because of late winter sunrises.
"Arkansans don't want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I will always put Arkansas first," he said.
In response, Trump complained that changing the clocks creates unnecessary hassle, and that early darkness cuts into time for golf and tennis. In his view, permanent daylight saving time would allow people to return from work after sunset less often.
According to a 2025 AP–NORC poll, 12% of American adults supported changing the clocks twice a year, 47% opposed it, and another 40% were neutral. In 2022, the Senate already approved the switch to permanent daylight saving time, but the bill did not pass the House of Representatives.
Earlier, Kursiv wrote about how Trump predicted his impeachment if the Democratic Party wins.