Washington, United States
Hours after former President Donald Trump left the White House, a mysterious red button he had installed disappeared, not for emergencies, but to warn that his favorite drink, diet soda, had run out of the agency now occupying the new US. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office.
The detail would have gone unnoticed had the political commentator and presenter not posted on Twitter Tom Newton Duun, in which he drew attention to the device, which could very well resemble the dreaded button to activate nuclear missiles featured in more than one film in the presidential office.
“President Biden has removed the diet soda button … When Tim Shipman and I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we were struck by what the little button did. Trump He pressed it, and a butler quickly got a soda on a silver tray. It’s gone, ”Dunn wrote.
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The post includes a series of photos observing a wooden box with a small red button protruding and standing next to the phones Trump used, but that on Biden’s first day in White House it is no longer observed.
The publication went viral on Thursday, and even local media echoed the comment.
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Trump’s hobby Eating hamburgers and the rumor that he can drink 12 cans of soda a day are part of the stories surrounding the ex-president, who doesn’t like exercise, although he does play golf.
The Hill publication quoted the book on Thursday “Team of Vipers” (‘Vipers Team’) published in 2019 by former White House adviser Chris Sims, who indicated that the former president used the red button as a way to joke with visitors by suggesting that he could activate the nuclear arsenal.
“Out of nowhere, he suddenly hit the button,” Sims wrote of the former president, The Hill recalled Thursday.
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Not knowing what to do, the account added, the guests looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Moments later, a butler entered the room with a glass of diet soda on a silver platter, and Trump laughed. “
The report noted that Biden, who from Wednesday as president 46 that of U.S, shares the taste for soft drinks with its predecessor.
According to the version, a caterer who worked with the new president told The Washington Post last year that Biden liked having light drinks in the fridge.