Joe Biden Removes Donald Trump's Diet Coke Button From Oval Office and Social Media Has Jokes
President Joe Biden has already made several changes to the Oval Office since taking over from [...]
President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button. When @ShippersUnbound and I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we became fascinated by what the little red button did. Eventually Trump pressed it, and a butler swiftly brought in a Diet Coke on a silver platter. It's gone now. pic.twitter.com/rFzhPaHYjk
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) January 21, 2021
Some members of Trump's White House staff thought the red button meant much more. In his book on the 2016 presidential campaign, Cliff Sims, a member of Trump's communications team until 2018, wrote that he wondered what would happen if Trump pressed the red button. "If Trump noticed someone glancing at the box — and sometimes completely unprompted — he would pick it up and move it farther away from himself," Sims wrote, reports PEOPLE. According to Sims, Trump once said, "Don't worry about that. No one wants me to push that button, so we'll just keep it over here. Now, what were you saying?"
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Between both Bushes. pic.twitter.com/xJoRhUctsN
— jospf (@cncnntus) January 21, 2021
Some staffers laughed nervously until Trump suddenly pressed the red button. "Not sure what to do, guests would look at one another with raised eyebrows," Sims wrote. "Moments later, a steward would enter the room carrying a glass filled with Diet Coke on a silver platter, and Trump would burst out laughing."
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I would've paid so much money to get to be in the room for the conversation that I imagine went like:
BIDEN: ok what's next
STAFFER: setting up the Oval. Photos are all done. Do you want to keep the Diet Coke button?
BIDEN:
STAFFER:
BIDEN: the what in god's name button https://t.co/cDhkmqzjr5
— Emmy Bengtson (@EmmyA2) January 21, 2021
Sims claimed most visitors laughed at the joke about the red button, but he thought it revealed much more about Trump's personality. "The prank offered a subtle sense of self-awareness, there were people who thought Trump was volatile enough to start a nuclear war," Sims wrote.
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prevnextGood on Biden for replacing the Diet Coke button with a Freestyle https://t.co/PcjFlGcO1P pic.twitter.com/cqkvUjHL4I
— Alex Zalben (@azalben) January 21, 2021
prevnextBiden should've kept this but instead of summoning a Diet Coke the button would call a random Trump family member and make a sad trombone sound https://t.co/HONMR24PQN
— shauna (@goldengateblond) January 21, 2021
prevLOOOOOL BIDEN REMOVED THE DIET COKE BUTTON FROM HIS DESK IT'S JUST LIKE TRUMP'S TWEET pic.twitter.com/wb24JCVpRS
— Megalon ❄️ (@MegalonVII) January 21, 2021