Inside Joe Biden’s Oval Office: new rug, chair and no more Trump ‘Diet Coke button’

All presidents tweak the Oval Office decor at the start of their terms to reflect their tastes and to telegraph broader messages to the public

Biden moved button Trump had on the desk that he would push to have a butler bring him a Diet Coke

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The Oval Office of the White House has been redecorated. Photo: AP

Published: 12:52pm, 22 Jan 2021Updated: 12:56pm, 22 Jan 2021

A button former president Donald Trump used to order Diet Cokes while sitting at the Resolute Desk in the White House has apparently been moved since President Joe Biden took office.

Trump first showed off the wooden call box in 2017 interviews with the Associated Press and the Financial Times. He showed reporters that with a push of a red button, a White House butler would bring him a glass of soda in the Oval Office.

In the years after, Trump was pictured regularly with the rectangular wooden box on the desk, right next to his phones.

US President Joe Biden at the Resolute Desk. Photo: AFP

The call button is not new and isn’t only used for ordering fizzy drinks – President Barack Obama was once pictured with it on a table during a lunch with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

But Biden appears to have moved the call button off his desk.

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