

30, 2017, by the North Korean government, what the North Korean government calls the Hwasong-15, a “significantly more” powerful, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile, is launched in North Korea AP (Fisher had a well-known addiction to regular Coke.In this image provided on Thursday, Nov. “Never have I wanted to hear more from Carrie Fisher in my life,” joked Mary Sue Associate Editor Rachel Leishman. “That button really was to order a diet coke. “So many people are asking if this is a joke, and I regret to inform you all it is not,” tweeted author Elizabeth May. Naturally, once this was pointed out, Diet Coke started trending immediately on social media. “Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button,” Trump says to Sevastopulo in the interview.Īlso Read: Everyone Is Happy That Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki's First Briefing Was 'Normal' and Not 'a Firehose Spray of Lies' He jokingly asked if it was the nuclear button, to which Trump replied “no no, everyone thinks it is,” before using it to order a diet coke. In an interview back in 2017, The Financial Times’ Demetri Sevastopulo wrote about how, while sitting across from Trump in the Oval Office, he noticed the button on a box on his desk.

It feels kind of hard to believe that a Diet Coke button would be an actual thing, even though it was something that was openly known. Eventually Trump pressed it, and a butler swiftly brought in a Diet Coke on a silver platter. When and I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we became fascinated by what the little red button did. President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button. He also made a very important, very significant change in the Oval Office: he removed the infamous “Diet Coke” call button.Īs seen in the below photos shared by Times Radio Chief Political Commentator Tom Newton Dunn, the button had been placed on Trump’s phone and he would use it to summon staffers to bring him the beverage whenever he wanted. Joe Biden made quick work of getting down to business on his first official day as the 46th president, attempting to bring the country back to something resembling unity and signing executive orders that reversed a lot of Trump’s recent policies.
