LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Republican Senator and Army Ranger School graduate Tom Cotton is refusing to refer to First Lady Jill Biden by the title of “doctor,” sources confirmed today.

“It’s just misleading,” said the former 101st Airborne Officer who campaigned on his experience as an Army Ranger. “Yeah, I suppose technically she has the title doctor since she has a Ph.D., but everyone knows it’s not the same thing.”

Cotton commissioned as an Army second lieutenant and attended Ranger School in 2005 before being assigned to a conventional infantry unit and deploying to Iraq. The Arkansas native, who never served in the 75th Ranger Regiment, deployed to Afghanistan in 2008. He transferred to the Army Reserves in 2010.

“How would you feel if you had a medical emergency like a heart attack on an airplane,” continued Cotton, whose military experience did not include conducting kill or capture missions against high-level targets as part of a special operations force. “Then they call for a doctor and some guy with a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies shows up? Are you okay with that person calling themselves a doctor?”