President Donald Trump has temporarily taken the 150-year-old Resolute Desk out of the Oval Office for refinishing. “A President, after election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks,” Trump wrote on ...

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The Oval Office desk is an iconic part of the famous presidential room - but there may be a reason Trump has decided to get rid of it, and it's not because of an office makeover. The president has ...

President Donald Trump is doing a little sprucing up in the White House. That’s why the iconic Resolute Desk has been temporarily removed from the Oval Office. Trump on Truth Social announced ...

President Donald Trump addressed pardoning some January 6th rioters and commuting the sentences of others at an Oval Office ceremony to sign executive orders. Trump took questions from and talked ...

WASHINGTON − Former President Joe Biden left a letter for the man replacing him in the Oval Office, continuing a ... in the Resolute Desk after a reporter asked about it Monday evening while ...

President Donald Trump discovered a letter in the Oval Office desk left behind by former President Joe Biden, continuing a tradition that began with President Ronald Reagan. Photo: Associated ...

Ronald Reagan probably didn’t realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawer after two terms as president.

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.