Biden brought the button Trump used to order diet coke back to the Oval Office

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President Joe Biden looks up after singing an executive order rescinding the Trump-era ban on transgender people from serving in the military, in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, January 25, 2021, in Washington. Photo AP / Evan Vucci

• Former President Donald Trump used a call button in the Oval Office to order diet cokes from staff.
• President Joe Biden initially moved the button from Resolute’s office on his first day in office.
• But it looks like the call button – which has been around for decades – is back.
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President Joe Biden brought back a call button that former President Donald Trump used to order diet cokes while sitting in the Oval Office after briefly removing it from the Resolute desk.

Photos from Monday show the call box sitting next to Biden’s phones, in the same spot Trump placed the box when he sat there.

The call booth was not seen in photos of Biden on his first day at the office last week.

Trump has used the wooden appeal box throughout his presidency and first showed it in 2017 interviews with the Associated Press and the Financial Times, in which he told reporters: ” Everyone gets a little nervous when I press that button. “

The call booth has been around for decades, and other recent presidents have also been photographed in the White House with it, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

It can be used to call White House staff, Secret Service agents, and other officials, but Trump appears to have told his staff that if he pushes the button, he wants a diet coke.

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President Donald Trump sits at the Resolute Desk after signing the Section 201 Actions in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster

It’s unclear if Biden has a specific use for the button or if it will be used more generally.

Like presidents before him, Biden also changed a number of decorations upon entering the Oval Office.

Biden replaced a portrait of President Andrew Jackson with a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and chose to present a number of progressives and activists across the room, including Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.

It also chose to display portraits of Benjamin Franklin, President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.