{"id":2383828,"date":"2024-12-26T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diet-coke-button-to-return-to-oval-office-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T20:57:00","slug":"diet-coke-button-to-return-to-oval-office-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/diet-coke-button-to-return-to-oval-office-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet Coke button to return to Oval Office &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdiet-coke-button-to-return-to-oval-office-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2383828&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200d article\u2064 discusses the return \u2064of former President Donald Trump to\u2064 the White House on Inauguration Day, January 20.\u200b As he \u200btakes office again,some elements from\u200b his previous administration will\u2063 be reinstated,including the notorious Diet Coke button \u2062on the Resolute Desk,which was\u2064 removed by current President Joe \u200cBiden shortly after he took office. This \u200dbutton\u200b allowed Trump to easily summon a butler for his favorite beverage. Alongside \u2062the Diet Coke button, other \u2063furniture arrangements and portraits \u2062from Trump&#8217;s first term will also \u200dbe\u2062 restored. the article highlights \u2063this transition as part of the tradition of a peaceful transfer of power,\u200d despite being less\u200d celebratory than \u2064the inauguration ceremony itself.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Diet Coke button will return to Trump&rsquo;s White House on Inauguration Day<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1921128\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> will return to the White House on Jan. 20, as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Joe Biden<\/a> moves out, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> set to revert to how it was four years ago in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s famous Diet Coke button will be one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/douglas-murray-why-cant-these-loathsome-elites-just-give-up-the-masked-charade\/\" title=\"Douglas Murray: Why Can\u2019t These Loathsome Elites Just Give up the Masked Charade?\">things returning<\/a>, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14207005\/trump-biden-inauguration-day-diet-coke-button.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"report\">report<\/a> from the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shameless-sen-mike-lee-blasts-anti-gun-group-for-fundraising-off-texas-school-shooting\/\" title=\"\u2018Shameless\u2019: Sen. Mike Lee Blasts Anti-Gun Group For Fundraising Off Texas School Shooting\">red button<\/a>, which was on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, summoned a butler to bring Trump his favorite drink when pressed. Trump&rsquo;s Diet Coke button was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/biden-removing-trumps-diet-coke-button-oval-office-jokes-1563602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">removed<\/a> by Biden shortly after taking office in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Other previous arrangements of furniture and portraits will also return to how they were under Trump&rsquo;s first administration, the outlet reported. The quick transition will mark a tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, which holds less fanfare than the inauguration ceremony on the west front of the Capitol Building.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and incoming first lady Melania Trump made their mark on the White House in 2020 with various renovations, including to the Rose Garden. Once the turnover happens on Jan. 20, 2025, the White House will look similar to how it previously appeared and will be staffed with many of the same people as his first term. Non-political White House staff largely remains the same throughout the different presidents.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People wait for a moving van after boxes were moved out of the Eisenhower Executive Office building inside the White House complex, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Gerald Herbert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the transition from Trump to Biden four years ago, the Trump White House team prepared to leave the executive mansion even as the then-president continued to contest his election loss. <\/p>\n<p>In the weeks before Trump&rsquo;s Jan. 20, 2021, exit, White House staff moved things out of the office buildings and residential parts of the mansion. By the time Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-white-house-usher.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"arrived\">arrived<\/a> at the White House after being sworn in, much of his stuff was being moved into the executive mansion.<\/p>\n<p>The move-out process for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-of-white-house-transitions-and-inauguration\/\" title=\"History of White House transitions and inauguration\">outgoing president<\/a> concludes when he is out of office, and the move-in process begins for the newly sworn-in president at 12:01 p.m. when his items are unpacked from moving vehicles and put in their place.<\/p>\n<p>A 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/18\/us\/politics\/white-house-biden-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"report\">report<\/a> from the <em>New York Times<\/em> says the process of moving out one president, deep cleaning the residence, and moving in another president takes roughly five hours. The White House staff of roughly 90 people packed and unpacked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s belongings and stock and rearranged the White House to the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">incoming president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s liking.<\/p>\n<p>Previous transitions between administrations at the White House have had oddities. When President Bill Clinton moved out of the White House in January 2001, newly inaugurated President George W. Bush and his staff were greeted with an executive mansion with roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2002-jun-12-na-clinton12-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"$15,000 in damage\">$15,000 in damage<\/a>, according to a General Accounting Office report.<\/p>\n<p>The incoming Bush administration accused the outgoing Clinton administration of vandalizing offices in the White House, among other damage to the executive mansion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The transitions from Bush to President Barack Obama and from Obama to Trump were less controversial than the Clinton to Bush changeover.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s exit from the White House will also likely come with additional scrutiny after the outgoing president and the incoming president&rsquo;s records with the handling of classified documents after leaving office came under scrutiny in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1921128\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1921128\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diet Coke button returns to Trump\u2019s White House on Inauguration Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2383829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/trump-diet-coke-button.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47445,35056,3634],"class_list":["post-2383828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-diet-coke","tag-oval-office","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/trump-diet-coke-button.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383832,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383828\/revisions\/2383832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}