Trump has a red button on his desk that orders Coke
President Trump often has his finger on the button in the Oval Office — but for soda, not nuclear strikes.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Trump revealed the purpose of a “red button” on his desk, which apparently is used to summon a butler with a Coke for the president.
“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,” the AP reported.
{mosads}The news was met with jokes on social media and television. Stephen Colbert, host of CBS’s “The Late Show,” joked that Trump was “turning the Oval Office into an 8-year-old’s drawing of a dream treehouse.”
Trump also mentioned the button during an interview with the Financial Times in the Oval Office.
When a reporter asked Trump whether it was the “nuclear button,” he pressed it to order some Cokes, then joked, “Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button.”
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