Golfer-in-Chief Takes Aim At Daylight Saving Time
Trump publicly pressed Cotton to stop holding up the bill and posted the senator’s cellphone number.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYCrooks and Liars is recorded as a blog, and this post has an unattributed byline and strongly opinionated presentation. It attributes some reporting to Raw Story but provides limited transparency about its own reporting or editorial practices.
- Source type — Blog format; a weaker institutional credibility prior than an established newsroom.
- Author attribution — No author is identified in the article metadata.
- Transparency — The post attributes some reporting to Raw Story but offers little information about its own reporting process.
The article includes direct quotations and attributes some reporting to Raw Story, but it relies heavily on a single viewpoint and uses mocking language. It offers little independent sourcing or context about the bill or Cotton’s position.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The post centers a critical interpretation of Trump’s conduct and uses his remarks as evidence, but it does not provide a substantial counter-perspective or Cotton’s full explanation for his position.
- Counterarguments presented — Cotton’s response is characterized but not quoted or explained in detail.
- Loaded language — The opening and framing use derisive language.
- Source diversity — Most of the material is Trump’s remarks and the article’s commentary, with little independent sourcing.
The article uses openly derisive language about Trump and presents his remarks through a critical, mocking frame. Its tone is distinctly left-leaning rather than neutral reporting.
- Language tone — Uses dismissive and mocking phrasing about Trump.
- Framing — Frames Trump’s push for the bill as self-interested and centers the golf-game explanation.
- Headline — The headline uses a mocking epithet for Trump.
President Donald Trump posted Sen. Tom Cotton’s cellphone number and urged Arkansas residents to pressure him over the Sunshine Protection Act, which Trump said Cotton was holding up. The article frames the dispute around Trump’s effort to secure a Senate vote and his public criticism of Cotton.
The article reports that Trump posted Cotton’s cellphone number and asked Arkansas residents to call him about the Sunshine Protection Act. Trump said Cotton was holding up the bill and argued that ending clock changes was popular and would bring benefits including more evening daylight. The article describes Cotton as defending his actions in a response that did not mention Trump by name.
In remarks quoted in the article, Trump urged the Senate to act and said the House had voted for the measure. He also credited Speaker Mike Johnson, saying, “Mike Johnson did a great job.”
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SWIPE →President who posted Cotton’s number and urged calls to pressure him
Senator whose opposition to the bill Trump criticized
Cotton's version of this story ↗Speaker credited by Trump with the House vote
Part of a bigger story
50 OUTLETSOutlets agree that Trump posted a number he identified as Sen. Tom Cotton’s and urged Arkansans to contact him in support of permanent daylight saving time. The House had passed the measure, but it remained stalled in the Senate. Left-leaning outlets focus on the phone-number post as a pressure tactic and its fallout, often criticizing Trump’s conduct. Center outlets largely recount the policy dispute, Cotton’s objections, and the phone-number post in descriptive terms. Right-leaning outlets emphasize Trump’s push to advance the bill and Cotton’s opposition, while also reporting the post and criticism it drew.
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