GOP Senator Threatens to Reveal Trump’s Phone Number If He Doxes Him: ‘I Got His Number Too’
Tillis joked that he also had Trump’s number during a televised exchange while promoting his book.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYMediaite is an established digital news outlet with an identifiable author and a focus on politics and media. This short item relies mainly on a televised exchange and provides limited independent reporting or corroboration.
- Source type — A national digital news outlet; a credible but not top-tier newspaper-of-record source.
- Author attribution — The article names an author.
- Transparency — The story identifies the television program and attributes the quoted remarks, but offers little additional reporting context.
- Editorial standards — The outlet has an established editorial operation, though this brief item gives limited evidence of its correction practices.
The article provides attributed quotations and basic context from a televised interview, but it is brief and does not independently verify the phone-number disclosure or offer a response from Trump.
HOW WE SCORE ↗This is a short account of Tillis’s comments on a television program. It attributes the exchange but includes no response from Trump or additional perspective on the phone-number disclosure.
- Source diversity — The item relies on one interview and does not add outside sources.
- Counterarguments presented — Trump's perspective is not included.
- Loaded language — The headline uses stronger language than Tillis’s quoted response, while the body is comparatively restrained.
- Opinion vs reporting — The piece is presented as news reporting rather than commentary.
The piece mainly recounts a televised exchange using attributed quotations and straightforward narration. Its headline is punchy, but the article's framing does not clearly favor either party.
- Language tone — The body uses mostly neutral narration and quotes the exchange.
- Framing — The story centers on Tillis's response rather than making a broader partisan argument.
- Headline — The headline emphasizes a threat, while the quoted line itself is less explicit.
Sen. Thom Tillis joked that he also has President Donald Trump’s phone number after hosts of The View warned Trump might disclose Tillis’s. Tillis was promoting his book and also criticized political overreach by both parties.
While promoting his book on The View, Sen. Thom Tillis was asked about his past fallout with President Donald Trump over the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The hosts raised the possibility that Trump might disclose Tillis’s phone number, citing Trump’s recent disclosure of Sen. Tom Cotton’s number. Tillis said he and Trump had spoken or texted several times since their dispute and replied, “I have his number, too.”
Tillis said he was not concerned about Trump’s reaction to the book. He also argued that voters are tired of political overreach and that the party that recognizes this first could gain a lasting majority.
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4 OUTLETSOutlets describe Tillis making media appearances and discussing his Senate record and Trump-related positions. Left-leaning outlets focus on challenges to Tillis’s support for Trump-aligned figures and his account of Republicans’ reluctance to confront Trump. Center outlets emphasize his defense of votes for nominees and the exchanges challenging his positions, alongside a joke about Trump’s phone number. Right-leaning outlets portray him as an obstacle to Trump’s agenda and criticize his Senate record and media appearances.
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