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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Lol... Funny story.
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Lol, I am British but two of those presidents are my cousins, 8th and 11th respectively.
How ironic that they are ones who didn’t want to use that desk.
(Also related to John Tyler and William Taft via a common ancestor, and via another, to the Bushes. All from ancestors from 17th century ancestors from Devon.
This is making me wonder if Donald Trump has ever in his life changed a diaper. My guess is no.
This is just way off. The desk was first used by Rutherford B. Hayes and many presidents after, including Taft, just not in the Oval office because there was no oval office at the time. Then FDR and Truman used it.
The White House has assured the public it’s snot a permanent change.
Oh my god, they didn’t.....LOL!
When they say “first used by John F. Kennedy” they probably mean that he was the first president to have sex on, under, beside, or in it.
Oh, well in that case I guess it’s probably accurate.
Both the left and right bottom drawers had broen stains in them and reeked of sewage and baby powder, at least that’s what the White powder looked like !
Poor kid..
Musk appears to be a very attentive father to little X, but having him in the Oval Office seems more than a little inappropriate, especially when the press is present.
My little ones would have just eaten it. I was not impressed by this at the time, but I suppose it was much tidier.
During a Baptism, as a child, I was standing right behind the minister as he praised an infant he was holding over his shoulder. While the praise was being laid on thick, so were the baby’s boogers on to good pastor’s shoulder.
It goes back to 1880.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk
Listening Devices Found in Oval Office—President’s Desk Removed for Security Scan
‘Assumed it was much older for such reverence towards it.”
The reverence, and the name, come from the origins of the desk, it was crafted from the timbers of the HMS RESOLUTE, when she was torn down, and gifted to the United States from Great Britain.
Like listening devices.
They call bugs buggers now!
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