

He also chose to display portraits of Benjamin Franklin, President Thomas Jefferson, and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the labor leader and civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez. Roosevelt and opted to feature a number of progressives and activists through the room, including Robert F. Presidents almost always redesign the Oval Office upon taking office, and the call button wasn't the only thing Biden changed.īiden replaced a portrait of President Andrew Jackson with a portrait of President Franklin D. Instead, photos of his desk on Biden's first day in office show two phones, a coffee cup, and a set of pens.

Official White House Photo by Pete Souzaīut Biden appears to have moved the call button off his desk. 22, 2009, with the call button visible on the table. Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button." Sevastopulo similarly reported that Trump pushed the button during his interview and a Diet Coke appeared shortly afterward.President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have lunch in the Oval Office Dining Room of the White House, Oct.

(Trump also joked to guests that it was the button, the one that can start World War 3. Pressing it signaled a servant to bring in a Diet Coke, reportedly Trump's favorite drink, on a silver tray. This isn’t the nuclear button, is it I joke, pointing. As the story goes, Trump had a red button mounted in a wooden box sitting on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

In response, Trump noted, “No no, everyone thinks it is. 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. In 2017, Financial Times reporter Demetri Sevastopulo indicated that he, too, had noticed " a little red button on a box that sits on his desk." Sevastopulo indicated that he joked with the president and asked him if it was the nuclear button. This isn't the first time the media has referenced Trump's Diet Coke-acquiring button. "Along the way, he orders a Diet Coke with ice with the push of a small red button set into a wooden box on the desk, and directs an aide to fetch a copy of a hand-delivered birthday letter sent from Kim Jong Un." "He has invited a group of TIME journalists for an interview," Bennet wrote. Reporter Brian Bennett described the ease with which Trump secured the drink during his recent interview with the president. This latest interview anecdote serves as a reminder of the president's strong affinity for diet cola - and the lengths he has taken to ensure that he has access to it at all times. During a recent interview with reporters from TIME magazine in the Oval Office, President Trump pushed a "Diet Coke button" on his desk, resulting in the rapid delivery of the beverage to his presidential workspace.
