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The White House Oval Office has reintroduced the Diet Coke Button, which President Trump used to summon beverages during his first administration, and which former President Joe Biden removed as soon as he took office in 2021.
The famed small red button, buried inside a wooden box, was discovered on Trump’s executive desk during his inaugural ceremony on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
As the name implies, the button summons a butler with a Diet Coke – Trump’s drink of choice – to the Oval Office whenever pressed, with Trump once joking “Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button.”
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Traditionally, the Oval Office is redecorated to the pleasure of the incoming president during Inauguration Day rituals. Rugs, draperies, paintings, and sculptures are frequently exchanged with other objects from the White House and government office collections to reflect the next president’s preferences.
Trump’s new Oval Office decor includes portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington – with the painting of the nation’s first president hanging over the fireplace, according to the Wall Street Journal. A portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first Treasury secretary and founder of The Post, as well as one of former President Thomas Jefferson were also seen hanging in Trump’s office.
Trump, 78, has also brought back a bust of Winston Churchill, which he displayed on a table next to the fireplace during his first term, and kept a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. that both he and Biden displayed in the Oval Office.
And of course, there will be lots of gold.
[Source: NYPost]
