Will Trump bring back his Diet Coke button? The clues behind the president-elects plans for the Oval Office

He has been moving swiftly to pick the men and women who will help him run the country.

But how exactly will Donald Trump summon his beloved Diet Cokes when he is working from the Oval Office in just a few months time?

And what sculptures and paintings will the commander-in-chief want surrounding him as he makes the biggest decisions as leader of the free world?

In his first term Trump, a soda fanatic, would use a button to alert a butler to bring him his favorite chilled soft drink while he was going through paperwork.

Now, as he prepares for his return to the White House, he will have to consider whether to reinstate it as part of the furnishings.

There are also other decisions to make about which leaders of the past he will give a nod to.

A bust of Sir Winston Churchill was removed by President Joe Biden when Trump vacated the White House in January 2021.

The Democrat chose busts of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr, Cesar Chavez and Rosa Parks. 

Donald Trump will have to consider if he wants to bring back the Diet Coke button fashioned into a wooden box on his desk  

Biden also took out Trumps curtains, opting for a darker shade of gold used by Bill Clinton. 

Now, Trump has a blank canvas at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to make it look how he wishes. 

It is a near certainty that Trump will once again use the Resolute Desk, a gift from Great Britain that was fashioned from the timbers of HMS Resolute, a Victorian ship involved in polar exploration.

Trump selected it for his first term, and later used a desk at Mar-a-Lago that bore a resemblance to it, despite its association with some Democratic presidents.

The incoming president can commission a new rug, although Trump may simply revert back to the pastel one he used during his first term. Biden swapped it out for a dark blue one.

Trump aide Stephen Miller revealed a glimpse inside the former presidents Mar-a-Lago office when he was out of office. Some of the items could make an appearance in the West Wing

The Diet Coke button proved to be essential during Trump’s first term. 

He had it specially installed and fashioned inside a wooden box, showing it off to an Associated Press reporter in 2017. 

Trump reportedly went through as many as a dozen of the sodas each day, and it powered him through late-night tweets and early morning attacks on his rivals.

During his first term, Trump also placed a model of his new design for Air Force One in a prominent location in the Oval Office. 

When Biden arrived his administration scrapped the Trump design after it was found to add to costs because the darker Trump colors affected temperature control.

Presidents routinely swap out historic paintings and sculpture, all in a matter of hours during the handover.

There shouldn’t be difficulty this time around, since President Biden has promised a peaceful transfer of power.

Trumps side table featured a picture of his father Fred (back left), him as a young man (back right), wife Melania (center) and son Barron, 18 (center, middle). To the left at the front appeared to be his mother, Mary, who died in 2000

Inside the Oval Office in August 2017, including new wallpaper and a major renovation 18 months after Trump moved into the White House 

Biden installed a darker carpet when he moved into the Oval Office and removed the Winston Churchill bust Trump had put in place 

When Biden moved into the Oval Office in January 2020, he set up his own personal touches and restored some of the interior design from the Clinton administration 

‘The Oval Office decoration often reflects a president’s view of history and the nature of his hopes for the future,’ presidential biographer Jon Meacham, who consulted with Biden, told the New York Times back in 2021 when Biden was putting his own stamp on the office.

Biden replaced a painting of President Andrew Jackson, a populist war hero, with one of Benjamin Franklin.

Trump also has a photo of Marine One flying past Mt. Rushmore in the summer of 2020. He tweeted in August 2020 that he wanted to be added to the South Dakota monument 

Trump might be inclined to switch back to the art from his first term.

He also may want to add to it with framed photos from his Mar-a-Lago office - including an image of Marine One flying across Mount Rushmore.

On his side desk, he has an array of family photos of wife Melania, son Barron and his late parents Mary and Fred.

A controversial photo to adorn the wall could be the moment he rises from the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, with his fist in the air after he was shot in the ear.

The fate of the Biden’s statues of Cesar Chavez and Rosa Parks are unknown, although if Trump wants to tip his hat to gains among black, Hispanic, and union voters, keeping them around would be one way to do it.

Trump famously brought back a bust of Sir Winston Churchill that was relocated during the Obama administration. 

Its return seems very possible, and Trump has spoken about Churchill’s oratory recently on the campaign trail.

Portraits of Trumps parents Fred and Mary and a playful photo of his wife Melania and son Barron sat behind the Resolute Desk 

Biden also had a collection of family photos, alongside a Cesar Chavez bust

The statue of Robert F. Kennedy presents a bit of a conundrum for Trump. 

He is a hero of Biden’s, along with a long line of liberal politicians.

Due to the placement of the bust, the liberal lion was often featured in photos of Biden. 

But his son Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. endorsed Trump, and the President-elect has said he will have a wide-ranging portfolio over health agencies, as well as women’s health.

Getting rid of the statue might send the wrong signal to a man who turned his back on his powerful family to support Trump.

If Trump wants something less formal than serious oil paintings of battles he could opt for something more modern.

The famed Diet Coke button is seen in the foreground of Trumps Oval Office picture, with framed photos of his family anda collection of medals in the back

Trump speaks on the phone surrounded by his advisers below a portrait of President Andrew Jackson

The Winston Churchill bust, pictured behind Trump during an Oval Office meeting in 2019, is one of the fixtures  likely to make a comeback 

Trump has proudly showed off a model of his design for Air Force One - with a red stripe running through the middle instead of the light blue on President Joe Bidens current model

He spoke repeatedly during the campaign of his ‘all time favorite chart’ – one showing a spike in illegal immigration. 

Trump says it saved his life when he looked toward it during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his ear.

Less likely is the famous chart showing Alabama under hurricane threat, with a black sharpie bringing it into the hurricane model to jibe with Trump’s public statements.

The chart was reportedly among the items Trump aides brought to Mar-a-Lago despite repeated urgings from the National Archives to claw back government property.

Some clues to Trump’s design priorities were revealed in an image from 2021, as he fought back against a report he was forced to pay donors back for $122 million from recurring donations from his last campaign.

The collection of Trumps challenge coins sit in front of the windows in the Oval Office 

Biden had a similar collection of coins on display in his Oval Office

Trumps transition team will be greeted by an empty Oval Office when Bidens staff move out 

It showed a backdrop of his office at Mar-a-Lago. It contained, among other things, a statue of himself, a photo of Air Force One flying over DC, and a photo of Marine One in front of Mount Rushmore, a monument Trump once tweeted he wanted to join.

It also shows a collection of challenge coins from the Oval Office – a way to acknowledge members of the military and other agencies as Trump ponders how to carry out the largest deportation in U.S. history.

As when he was president, Trump had photos of his family, including father Fred Trump. 

There was also a Border Patrol plaque mounted on a section of his wall – just the first sign of the immigration issue that would help power him to reelection.

Posing with Trump in the photo was Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller.