New York: US President Donald Trump has ordered the 150-year-old iconic Resolute Desk removed from the Oval Office for refurbishment, days after Elon Musk’s son seemingly wiped a booger on it during their visit to the White House, according to media reports.
“A President, after the election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks,” Trump wrote on social media.
“This desk, the ‘C&O,’ which is also very well known and was used by President George H W Bush and others, has been temporarily installed in the White House while the Resolute Desk is being lightly refinished—a very important job. This is a beautiful, but temporary replacement!” Trump wrote.
The Resolute Desk, crafted from the once-abandoned British arctic exploration ship the HMS Resolute was gifted to President Rutherford Haye by Queen Victoria in 1880. The iconic desk has been used by almost every US leader in the West Wing.
“A President, after the election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Feb. 19. “This desk, the ‘C&O,’ which is also very well known and was used by President George H.W. Bush and others, has been temporarily installed in the White House while the Resolute Desk is being lightly refinished—a very important job. This is a beautiful, but temporary replacement.”
President Donald Trump took the 145-year-old iconic Resolute Desk out of the Oval Office and substituted it with the C&O Desk that belonged to George H.W. Bush. Trump, who didn’t elaborate on the reason for the switch, added that he would be “a beautiful, but temporary replacement.”
Trump had used the Resolute Desk during all four years of his previous presidency which ended in 2021. He has also used it multiple times since he took oath on January 20 for his second term.
The Resolute Desk marks one of six – along with the C&O, Theodor Roosevelt, Hoover, Johnson, and Wilson – that have been placed in the Oval Office since the room’s construction in 1909 as a symbol of one’s presidency, along with providing a practical workspace, reports The Independent.
