Posted on 02/20/2025 4:07:14 PM PST by Libloather
The White House has assured the public it’s snot a permanent change.
President Trump ordered the iconic Resolute Desk removed from the Oval Office for refurbishment after Elon Musk’s 4-year-old son, X, appeared to pick his nose and rub the desk on live TV last week.
The young Musk scion and budding nasal archaeologist, whose full name is X Æ A-12, fidgeted, babbled and, at times, wandered around when he appeared in the Oval Office with his father and Trump during a joint Q&A session about the work of Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
At one point the tot — whose mom is pop star Grimes — wiggled his finger around in his nostril and then seemingly wiped the resulting bounty on the famous desk, first used by John F. Kennedy in 1961 and later used by presidents including Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden during their time in office.
Trump, a known germaphobe, revealed in a Truth Social post Thursday that the Resolute Desk had been temporarily replaced with the C&O desk, one of six available to the sitting president.
“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,” Trump wrote.
“This is a beautiful, but temporary replacement!”
C&O is short for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and was initially built for that company’s owners. It was initially used in the Oval Office Study in 1975 before rail company GSX donated it to the White House in 1987.
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Could have just wiped it LOL..Little X is adorable that is what little kids to
I’m sure other bodily fluids have been wiped on that desk, eh Bubba?
I didn’t know the Resolute Desk only went back as far as Kennedy. Assumed it was much older for such reverence towards it.
The Resolute desk needed a great big , beautiful refurb after four years of Biden desecration
Another hilarious masterpiece from the Babylon Bee! Oh, wait...
I really think Trump needed to have the desk cleaned post Biden!
Trump was just waiting for an excuse to have it disinfected.
They should have Monica look for it. I’m sure she knows all the nooks and crannies.
Did the Babylon Bee buy out the NYPost or was it the other way around?
Boogie on my finger and I can’t shake it off
by Weird Al Yankovic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2tWY1Beo6E
The Bee ???
Trumps actually having the resolute checked for the clues to the founders hidden gold as seen on National Treasure :p
It’s older. Kennedy just took it out of storage.
I’d be more worried about the chair..
bidens leaky diaper.. well... you know..
kids have a tendency of finding things adults don’t see...
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/what-is-the-resolute-desk-and-where-did-it-come-from
Resolute Desk is a double pedestal partners’ desk made from the oak timbers of the British ship HMS Resolute. In 1880, Queen Victoria gifted the desk to President Rutherford B. Hayes. It has been used by nearly every president since, with the notable exceptions being Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford...
I guarantee that is not the only booger under that desk.
Thanks, you inspired me to look it up and the history is great read.
Really struggling to believe this story.
Nothing a paper towel and surface cleaner couldn’t handle.
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