Trump’s Iconic Diet Coke Button Returns to the Oval Office. . .The Resolute Desk got retro-fitted

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Julia Ornedo 

Reporter

Updated 01.20.25 10:04PM EST / 

Published 01.20.25 9:04PM EST 

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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.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal