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President Joe Biden reportedly removed a button Donald Trump used to order Diet Coke while working in the Oval Office as one of the sweeping changes in DC over the past 24 hours.
The infamous device, which had been installed in the Resolute Desk, was not visible in captured photos of Biden working inside the White House on Thursday.
Trump, a known soda fanatic, reportedly drank up to 12 cans of Diet Coke per day during his time as commander-in-chief.
He first unveiled the button during an interview with the Associated Press in 2017, and showed reporters that with a single push, a White House butler would immediately bring him a glass of soda on a silver tray.
However, the notorious Coca-Cola summoning device appears to have been kicked out of the White House, along with Trump himself, amid a new dawn on Capitol Hill.
Now you see it: Diet Coke’s infamous summoning device is seen next to Trump’s phone and is inside a wooden box.
Not now: the button was not visible in photos captured when Biden was working inside the White House on Thursday and appears to have been removed.
The button’s absence was first pointed out in a tweet Thursday by Times Radio’s chief political correspondent Tom Newton Dunn, who shared images comparing Trump and Biden’s desks.
“President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button,” Dunn wrote. When … I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we were fascinated by what that little red button did. Finally, Trump pressed him and a butler quickly brought out a Diet Coke on a silver platter. It’s gone now.
Instead, photos of Biden’s desk from his first day at the office show two phones, a cup of coffee, and a set of pens. It is not clear what happened to the call button.
Former White House aide Chris Sims revealed in his 2019 book Team of Vipers that Trump used to use the red button as a way to joke visitors to the White House by suggesting he had nuclear capabilities.
“Out of nowhere, he suddenly hit the button,” Sims wrote. ‘I’m not sure what to do, the guests were looking at each other with raised eyebrows.’
Then Trump reportedly ‘burst out laughing’ when the butler entered the room.
Trump, a known soda fanatic, reportedly drank up to 12 cans of Diet Coke per day during his time as commander-in-chief.
News of the button’s existence and its subsequent removal spread through social media on Thursday, inspiring the typical flurry of funny memes and comments.
“This is not the change we voted for,” Robert Evans jokingly tweeted. ‘If I am elected president in 2024, there will be a Diet Coke button in every home, and the butler will appear every hour on the hour to force Diet Cokes into his hand whether he wants to or not. I will drown this nation in aspartame. ‘
Will Menaker said: ‘Biden getting rid of the Diet Coke button in the oval office shows that he has no interest in’ reaching out ‘or’ healing the division ‘.
“I’d like to get registered as a professional diet coke button,” added Charlie Warzel.
Tweeter William Ader wrote: ‘Overheard at Mar-a-Lago this morning: Get your own damn Diet Coke.’
While Biden may not share his predecessor’s passion for soda, he does have his own sugary vice: ice cream.
In August, during a video released as part of the Democratic National Convention, Biden’s grandchildren revealed that “he’s always eating ice cream, usually vanilla.”
While Biden may not share his predecessor’s passion for soda, he does have his own sugary vice: ice cream.
As further evidence, on Thursday, the day after its launch, an ice cream brand Biden has a particular affinity for, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, launched a new flavor in her honor.
The company said Biden has been a frequent visitor to its stores since 2012, so much so that founder Jen Britton Bauer knows her order by heart: a double scoop of chocolate chip ice cream in a waffle cone.
While the fate of the button is unknown, it is not the only change Biden has made to the décor of the Oval Office.
The 46th President of the United States has placed a photograph of his late son, Beau Biden, on a table behind the Resolute desk. Beau died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46.
Biden replaced a portrait of President Andrew Jackson with a portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, opting to feature various progressives and activists in the room, including Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and union leader. and civil rights activist César Chávez.
He also chose to show portraits of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.
