Biden appears to remove Trump’s Diet Coke button in the Oval Office

Biden appears to remove Trump’s Diet Coke button in the Oval Office

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  • President Biden moved a button that former President Trump used to order Diet Coke in the Oval Office.
  • Trump revealed in 2017 that when he pressed a button on his oval office desk, a White House butler brought him soda.
  • The call button is not new – Obama was also pictured with it – but it is no longer on the Resolute Desk.
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A button that former President Donald Trump used to order Cocas Diet while sitting at the White House’s Resolute Desk has apparently been removed since President Joe Biden took office.

Trump first showed the wooden calling box in 2017 interviews with the Associated Press and the Financial Times. He showed reporters that, pressing a red button, a White House butler would bring him a glass of soda in the Oval Office.

In the years that followed, Trump was portrayed regularly with the rectangular wooden box on the table, right next to his phones.

The call button is not new and is not only used for soft drinks – President Barack Obama has already been photographed with him at a table during a lunch with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have lunch in the White House Oval Office on October 22, 2009, with the call button visible on the table.

Official White House photo by Pete Souza



But Biden appears to have removed the call button from his desk.

Instead, photos of his desk on Biden’s first day at work show two phones, a cup of coffee and a set of pens. It is not clear where the call button went.

Presidents almost always redesign the Oval Office when they take office, and the call button was not the only thing that Biden changed.

Biden replaced a portrait of President Andrew Jackson with a portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and chose to introduce several progressives and activists in the room, including Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and labor leader and activist of civil rights Cesar Chavez.

He also chose to display portraits of Benjamin Franklin, President Thomas Jefferson and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.

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