As anyone who has seen National Treasure Book of Secrets know, the president’s desk in the oval office is called the resolute desk. It was made from timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship, The Resolute. There were two desks made. One stayed with Queen Victoria and is in Buckingham Palace and the second she gave to Rutherford B Hayes. President Trump has a red button on the desk but can you guess what it is for?
The “red button” symbolically represents the president’s nuclear launch order in modern culture, a perception that former Then-candidate Hillary Clinton used during the 2016 presidential campaign against Trump.
“Do we want his finger anywhere near the button?” Clinton asked repeatedly during her stump speech on the campaign trail.
The president is able to change the function of the button based on his respective needs. Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush used the button to call an emergency meeting of top staffers during the course of their administrations.
President Donald Trump has a red button on the resolute desk that summons a butler with a coke whenever he needs it, according to a Sunday report from the Associated Press.
The AP story included the coke story in a much larger article about the president’s accomplishments during his first 100 days in office.
“With the push of a red button placed on the Resolute Desk that presidents have used for decades, a White House butler soon arrived with a Coke for the president,” reporter Julie Pace reported Sunday.