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Trump’s Iconic Diet Coke Button Returns to the Oval Office

BACK ON THE TABLE

The presidential office was redecorated for Trump on Inauguration Day.

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the WHite House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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As the Oval Office underwent a makeover on Donald Trump’s inauguration day, an iconic red button made a comeback, according to The Wall Street Journal. And no, it’s not for nuclear weapons. The Resolute Desk got retrofitted with Trump’s beloved Diet Coke button, a small red button mounted in a wooden box that signals a butler to bring him a chilled glass of his favorite drink. Visitors often mistake it for the nuclear button, Trump told the Financial Times in a 2017 interview. “Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button,” he said. Other artifacts that have returned to the presidential office include portraits of the founding fathers George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, populist Andrew Jackson, a bust of Winston Churchill, and a sculpture by Frederic Remington named “The Bronco Buster.” Trump also kept some pieces displayed by his predecessor Joe Biden, including a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a bust of Martin Luther King Jr.

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