‘If you elect me president in 2024, there will be a Diet Coke button in every home, and butler's will show up every hour on the hour to force Diet Cokes into your hand whether you want one or not. ‘This is not the change we voted for,’ Robert Evans tweeted in jest. News of the button’s existence and subsequent removal spread across social media across Thursday, inspiring the typical flurry of memes and amusing commentary. Trump would then reportedly ‘burst out laughing’ when the butler would walk in the room. ‘Not sure what to do, guests would look at one another with raised eyebrows.’ ‘Out of nowhere, he’d suddenly press the button,’ Sims wrote. It’s unclear what has happened to the call button.Įx-White House aide Chris Sims revealed in his 2019 book Team of Vipers that Trump would often use the red button as a way of pranking visitors to the White House by suggesting it had nuclear capabilities. Instead, photos of Biden’s desk during his first day in office show two phones, a coffee cup, and a set of pens. Eventually Trump pressed it, and a butler swiftly brought in a Diet Coke on a silver platter. ‘When … I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we became fascinated by what that little red button did. ‘President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button,’ Dunn wrote. The button’s absence was first pointed out in a Thursday tweet by Times Radio chief political correspondent Tom Newton Dunn, who shared images comparing the desks of Trump and Biden. He also chose a tufted, dark brown leather chair instead of keeping the reddish-brown desk chair Trump used.Now you don't: The button wasn’t visible in photos captured as Biden worked Thursday inside the White House and appears to have been removed Biden also replaced a row of military service flags Trump used to decorate the office with a single American flag and a flag with the presidential seal. Roosevelt, along with Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father and former treasury secretary. Moreover, on the wall across from Biden’s desk is now a portrait collage of predecessors George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. The President has also removed a bust of Winston Churchill, the former UK PM. and Rosa Parks, are also on display, along with a sculpture of President Harry Truman. Civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King Jr. The most visually striking change is Biden’s choice of a deep blue rug, with the presidential seal in the middle to replace a light-coloured rug laid down by Trump. Meanwhile, along with the red button, Biden has also made other changes to his decor at the famous room. READ: Biden To Discuss Disputed Pipeline With Trudeau Biden's Oval Office READ: Keystone Pipeline Issues: How Many jobs Have Been Lost After Biden Revoked The Permit? Moments later, a steward would enter the room carrying a glass filled with Diet Coke on a silver platter, and Trump would burst out laughing”. He added, “Not sure what to do, guests would look at one another with raised eyebrows. Sims wrote that the former President, out of nowhere, would suddenly press the button. Trump would regularly consume 12 cans of Diet Coke a day, therefore, he got the button installed for his convenience.Įx-White House aide Chris Sims also wrote in his book, ‘Team of Vipers’, that Trump would also use the red button as a way of pranking visitors by suggesting it could trigger nuclear capabilities. When pressed, a staffer would be summoned to provide the drink to the President. However, Biden, who has already reversed previous administration’s policies on immigration, environment, economy and fighting COVID-19 pandemic, also turned around the look of the Oval Office.Īccording to ANI, Trump, who is devoted to the soda drink, had the button put in place on the Resolute Desk in order to keep the carbonated beverages keep flowing. The former President Trump had the button installed on a wooden box next to his phone. As Joe Biden assumed charge as the 46th President of the United States, he removed his predecessor Donald Trump’s ‘Diet Coke button’ in the Oval Office.
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