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Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo meet with Brazilian officials. The button can be seen next to the telephone.
The Diet Coke button was a wood-encased, brick-sized button used by President Donald Trump to summon a White House staffer bearing a can of Diet Coke.[1] The button was first revealed to the world at large in a 2019 Time Magazine interview.[2] Trump would reportedly play practical jokes on staffers and visitors by making them think the button controlled nuclear missiles, and would occasionally imply that he had fired them before laughing when a staffer came in with a can of Coke.[3] Images surfaced on Twitter showing the button was in use during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, though it is unknown what purpose it had served then.[4] The button appeared to have been removed by the first day of the Joe Biden administration,[5] though Biden's affinity for Coke Zero has been noted in the past.[6] The button subsequently returned when Trump returned to office.[7]
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The following list is of explicit appearances of the Diet Coke button.
| Year | Name | Appearance | Notes |
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| 2019 | Diet Coke button |
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References[]
- ↑ Biden removes Trump’s Diet Coke button as part of Oval Office overhaul - Josh K. Elliott - 22 January 2021 - Global News - Retrieved 23 January 2021
- ↑ ‘My Whole Life Is a Bet.’ Inside President Trump’s Gamble on an Untested Re-Election Strategy - Brian Bennett - 20 June 2019 - Time - Retrieved 23 January 2021
- ↑ Trump Reportedly Kept Red Button on His Desk and Made Others Nervous When He Pressed It: What It Really Did - Sam Gillette - 30 January 2019 - People - Retrieved 23 January 2021
- ↑ Joe Biden Removes Donald Trump's Diet Coke Button From Oval Office and Social Media Has Jokes - Daniel S. Levine - 21 January 2021 - PopCulture - Retrieved 23 January 2021
- ↑ Trump's Diet Coke button appears to have left Oval Office when he did - Judy Kurtz - 21 January 2021 - The Hill - Retrieved 23 January 2021
- ↑ Diner-in-Chief: How the Bidens might eat and entertain in and out of the White House - Emily Heil & Tom Sietsema - 20 October 2020 - The Washington Post - Retrieved 23 January 2021
- ↑ Trump Shows Off His Oval Office ‘Coke Button’ to Laura Ingraham - Janna Brancolini - 20 March 2025 - The Daily Beast - Retrieved 20 March 2025 - Archived 20 March 2025
- ↑ Trump Guy - IMDB - Retrieved 23 January 2021