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Trump has changed the Oval Office: The return of Churchill’s bust and the button to order Coca Cola

The carefully selected items in the Oval Office reflect the American president's preferences, including a button for ordering Coca-Cola

Newsroom January 21 09:30

Donald Trump took the oath of office and returned to the Oval Office, updating its decor.

As he once stated during an appearance in Washington, “Wars begin and end there. Everything begins and ends in the Oval Office.”

The carefully chosen objects in the Oval Office reflect the American president’s preferences, which include even a button for ordering Coca-Cola.

As in 2017, so too in 2025, a portrait of George Washington hangs above the fireplace. It is flanked by portraits of Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and Thomas Jefferson, the third president.

Also prominently displayed is a portrait of Andrew Jackson, a president Trump is said to particularly admire.

In the Oval Office, Donald Trump placed family photos, including one of his mother, Mary.

The Return of Churchill
Donald Trump also brought back the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, as he did in 2017. Sculpted by Sir Jacob Epstein, the bust was originally gifted to George W. Bush by the British government in 2001.

Subsequently, Barack Obama caused a diplomatic “rift” by moving the bust to a table outside the room. His decision drew criticism from then-London Mayor Boris Johnson, the future British Prime Minister and Churchill biographer, who suggested that Obama was motivated by an “ancestral dislike of the British Empire.”

Trump reinstated the bust in 2017, but Joe Biden later moved it to make room for busts of Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez. Churchill’s bust now resides once again on a side table to the right of the Oval Office fireplace.

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The Coca-Cola Button
According to Fox News, the Coca-Cola button has also returned to the Oval Office, allowing Donald Trump to order the drink with ease. The red button, concealed in a wooden box, was used by Trump during his first term and was spotted on his desk again after his swearing-in as the 47th president on Monday.

The Diet Coke Button Returns to the Oval Office After Trump Inauguration

A bust of Martin Luther King Jr., also featured during Joe Biden’s tenure, remains in the Oval Office. However, the portrait of Franklin Roosevelt has been removed, while that of Benjamin Franklin remains in place.

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