The White House from Washington, DC via Wikimedia Commons

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.




Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

Comments

    1. It resets a timer to remind him to change his adult diaper. He could drum up money for his party of deplorables in the commiecrat party by doing depends adds. He could assign Kamala to shop for him when his stash gets low.

  1. Trump had this button and Biden has blank executive order books to sign. Every time he goes to sign the executive action books I swear they’re blank. Please someone look also and see if you see what I don’t see.

  2. Biden and family and all the Democrats in the Government bureaucracy, including the so-called media also know as Democrats, have deceived us. Biden and many in the Congress and also the senate should be impeached and removed. We should have a new election since we haven’t had an legitimate one. All ballots will have to be signed and backed up with proper legal identification. I guarantee you would definitely see a much different result to this election. I believe Democrats would lose seats in Congress and in the Senate, Trump would definitely win a landslide election. That’s what should have happened.

  3. That was an excellent troll! Can you imagine the horror scenarios that played through the warped minds of those lefties when they discovered that button?

  4. The red button reminds me of the Staples commercial with the red “Easy” button. When Hillary was Secretary of State and she wasn’t having an easy time with Putin, she had a red RESET button made and gave it to him in an effort to suggest a reset of their relationship. In the video made of the presentation Putin looked at the button & her with a look on his face that seemed to say, “Huh??”.

  5. Wish it would open the floor and drop him in to his basement and never be seen or heard from again along with Toes up Harris and their crime buddies. Maybe that would be HELL for them but heaven for the country.

  6. Just one problem with this!:) There is no Biden in the actual Whitehouse.
    Rather search for him in Hollywood Hint 🙂 Castlerock Studios 🙂

  7. Trump is an idiot. So was Reagan and Nixon, whose legacies will not only survive, but finally begin to shine more favorably in the wake of Trump’s illicit occupation of the Oval Office. Reagan’s special thing was jelly beans and Nixon’s was cottage cheese with ketchup.

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