in March 2017.]] Some presidents of the United States have had a red call button in the Oval Office of the White House that could call aides. It has often but not always been on the . According to Richard Branson, President Obama used it to order tea. During the Trump administration, when pressed, a signal would summon a butler who would bring a Diet Coke on a silver platter; Trump reportedly also used the button to request lunch. Donald Trump stated to one reporter that "everyone thinks it is ". Trump reportedly drank 12 Diet Cokes per day. In the first few days of Joe Biden's presidency, he had the button removed.
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