Biden removes Trump’s mysterious “red button” – Telemundo El Paso (48)

WASHINGTON – Hours after former President Donald Trump left the White House, a mysterious red button that he had installed, not for emergencies, but to warn that he had run out of his favorite drink, Diet Coke, disappeared from his desk. now occupies the new president of the United States, Joe Biden, in the Oval Office.

The detail would have gone unnoticed had it not been for a post on Twitter by political commentator and presenter Tom Newton Duun, in which he drew attention to the device, which could well resemble the dreaded button to activate nuclear missiles that in more than one movie appears in the presidential office.

“President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button. When Tim Shipman and I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we were struck by what the little button did. Eventually, Trump pressed it and a butler quickly brought out a Coke. Cola light on a silver platter. Gone, “Dunn wrote.

The message includes a sequence of photos in which a wooden box is observed in which a small red button protrudes and which is located next to the phones that Trump used, but that on Biden’s first day in the White House already Not observed.

The publication went viral on Thursday and even local media echoed the comment.

TRUMP AND BIDEN, LOVERS OF COCA COLA

Trump’s fondness for eating hamburgers and the rumor that he is capable of drinking twelve cans of Coca Cola a day are part of the stories that surround the former president, who is not fond of physical exercise, although he does play golf.

The publication The Hill quoted this Thursday the book “Team of Vipers” (‘Team of vipers’) 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 the visitors by suggesting that he could activate the nuclear arsenal.

“Out of nowhere, I would suddenly push the button,” Sims wrote about the former president, The Hill recalled Thursday.

“Not knowing what to do,” added the story, “the guests looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Moments later, a butler walked into the room with a full glass of Diet Coke on a silver platter, and Trump laughed. “

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The report pointed out that Biden, who took office as the 46th president of the United States since Wednesday, shares with his predecessor a taste for soft drinks.

According to the version, a caterer who worked with the new president told The Washington Post last year that Biden liked to have Coca-Cola Zero in the pantry.

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