With the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, the Oval Office — perhaps the most-recognizable office in the world — has received a makeover. Busts have been swapped out, new portraits have been hung and the famed Diet Coke button is back.
In his 2019 book Team of Vipers, former White House aide Chris Sims revealed that during his first term, Trump would use the red button to prank visitors, claiming it might activate nuclear capabilities.
Donald Trump, who has expressed his love for American fast food like McDonald's and KFC, also toasted Vice-President JD Vance with Diet Coke at his inauguration ceremony.
Trump supporters celebrated the cover as a symbolic reclaiming of authority. However, critics interpreted the image as a representation of Trump’s penchant for disorder.
“Nowhere else on Earth could a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, one day sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as President ...
President Donald Trump talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to AI by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
Mr. Trump’s co-stars may have changed, but the show has not. He remains a reality-TV star with a reality-TV performer’s instincts. (Fittingly, his swearing-in featured a performance by the country star and “American Idol” winner Carrie Underwood — like him, a reality celebrity who went on to bigger things.)
The 'cola button,' which had disappeared during the Biden administration, has reappeared after four years. President Trump installed the cola button in the Oval Office shortly after starting his first term in 2017. Pressing the round red button would provide the diet cola that Trump favored.
President Donald Trump redecorated the Oval Office with many of the same artifacts from his first White House term.
President Trump said Monday that he expects to put 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Feb. 1, while declining to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.
Trump is now the president again. He has promised a historically busy Inauguration Day.