One of the first things Joe Biden did upon assuming the presidency was to redecorate the Oval Office, replacing some of the things Trump left behind like a bust of Winston Churchill and a portrait of Andrew Jackson.
But Trump also left behind, on the President’s desk, a small red push button, mounted in a wooden box.
Rather than launch missiles or summon world leaders, it had a far different use.
Trump pressed it whenever he wanted a Diet Coke.
The red button was first noticed in 2017 by reporters visiting the new president.
“Sitting across from Donald Trump in the Oval Office, my eyes are drawn to a little red button on a box that sits on his desk,” Financial Times reporter Demetri Sevastopulo wrote in April 2017.
“This isn’t the nuclear button, is it,” Sevastopulo joked to Trump
“No, no, everyone thinks it is,” Trump responded, pressing the button. “Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button.”
A butler soon arrived with a new glass of Diet Coke.
Trump isn’t the first President to have his own system of getting drinks.
After retiring, former President Lyndon Johnson spent some of his time slowly driving one of his convertibles around his Texas ranch, drinking Cutty Sark and soda out of Styrofoam cups.
He couldn’t head back to the house when his drinks ran low or stop to pour another, so he had a Secret Service agent follow him. When Johnson needed a refill he hung the cup over the driver’s-side door, at which point an agent ran up beside the car with a fresh cup.
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