We were hoping that the firing of former FBI director James Comey, like most bombshell scandals that threaten to bring down the president and perhaps America itself, would burn out after one week of blanket media coverage.
President Trump, however, ensured the story will live on another week with his tweet Friday mentioning “tapes,” which inspired Keith Olbermann to declare, “Trump’s presidency is about to end.”
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
Now we’re wishing we’d bought stock in the sure-fire growth industry of stories comparing Trump to Richard Nixon. By Friday afternoon, the Washington Post had published its entry about Trump’s long history of secretly recording calls, which included this anecdote, highlighted by the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale:
Trump was in his office and quietly offered reporters a drink. Then someone appeared with them out of the blue: https://t.co/t5RgFzyfA4 pic.twitter.com/sG8oFjr5vM
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 13, 2017
Telling.. Paranoid unconfident personality ….tapes exist
— Theresa (@stgh386) May 13, 2017
This appears to prove Trump tapes or has microphones in the Oval Office. #TrumpRussiaCoverUp
— Mata Hari (@Socratic1) May 13, 2017
meaning a mike in the Oval Office, meaning everything is recorded.
— Betty Aberlin (@bettyaberlin) May 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/863426767800979459
That’s a bombshell, no doubt. Unless … didn’t we just read somewhere that Trump has a red button on his desk he can push to order a Diet Coke?
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Doesn't he have a button to order Coke?
— Baker 7Zero (@BakerSevenZero) May 13, 2017
We vaguely recall the story, but we can’t remember where we saw it: was it Architectural Digest or the Straits Times of Singapore?
Trump has a button on his desk he can press and a butler brings him a Coke https://t.co/RbaJFTiiA1 pic.twitter.com/74lFLs4rvy
— Amy Fiscus (@amyfiscus) April 25, 2017
Trump has a button that he presses so a butler delivers him a Coke. Yes, seriously: https://t.co/MFgfRLTdGt pic.twitter.com/yyEo188kNv
— Esquire (@esquire) April 25, 2017
Trump presses a red button affixed to the Oval Office desk when he wants a butler to bring him a Coke https://t.co/hnGSIwymTH pic.twitter.com/5LEoYL0wiR
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 26, 2017
Donald Trump has a red button on his desk but but that's less scary than it sounds https://t.co/Ow5GintNqb pic.twitter.com/m8bPx5Xgd3
— The Independent (@Independent) April 26, 2017
Donald Trump has a red button to get a butler to bring him Coke https://t.co/rAXDOdvhpj
— Metro (@MetroUK) April 26, 2017
Trump Has A Red Button For Coke On The Resolute Desk https://t.co/LOb4e8S2Jc pic.twitter.com/DzDQBrgVvj
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 26, 2017
Donald Trump has a special red button that delivers him something really silly https://t.co/EWAjToyMU0 pic.twitter.com/zX5bMv3pmt
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) April 26, 2017
Donald Trump has a red button on his desk https://t.co/TlhxFUc3p9 pic.twitter.com/W3c3wNtYHH
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 26, 2017
Trump has a red desk button, but it doesn't do what you'd expect https://t.co/VRFlfQ2bw8 pic.twitter.com/uZroxuIVsO
— HuffPost Weird News (@HuffPostWeird) April 26, 2017
There's a red button on President Donald Trump's desk – for Coke https://t.co/nGBoY6OC6X pic.twitter.com/TGEhHhGWP5
— The Straits Times (@STcom) April 27, 2017
Watch the nerve-racking moment Stephen Colbert discovers the purpose of Trump's 'red button' https://t.co/YQ52EVeuw4
— TIME (@TIME) April 27, 2017
President Donald Trump has made one unusual addition to the famed Resolute Desk: https://t.co/Acdgo2lvoe
— Architectural Digest (@ArchDigest) April 27, 2017
Trump has a red button on his desk that orders a butler to bring him Coke https://t.co/Jo3aBolCt4 pic.twitter.com/hMU4Dd20LX
— The Hill (@thehill) April 27, 2017
Here is the red button Trump has on his Oval Office desk to order a Coke https://t.co/U7kpzX01yf pic.twitter.com/rhxaXIyKF2
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) April 28, 2017
Donald Trump has a big red button on his desk – but it doesn't do what you might thinkhttps://t.co/ZvbemYnhvj
— The Daily Record (@Daily_Record) April 28, 2017
US President Donald Trump has a SECOND big red button on his desk – and you won't believe what it does… https://t.co/UftzuaJxIF pic.twitter.com/wjYoC2voCJ
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) April 28, 2017
There's a tiny red button on Trump's desk — here's what happens when he presses it https://t.co/fQGXIdQSOK pic.twitter.com/xhdYuDkaZ9
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) April 28, 2017
Trump has a red button on the Oval office desk to order a coke https://t.co/hwkk4AqjbF pic.twitter.com/goKsNoddbj
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) April 28, 2017
There's a tiny red button on Trump's desk — here's what happens when he presses it https://t.co/R5XRupDHn1 pic.twitter.com/ZXlrlZKzuJ
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) April 29, 2017
Donald Trump has Coke button in the Oval Office: https://t.co/8TzgDdXfDm pic.twitter.com/YyaOz6cFmp
— Slate (@Slate) April 30, 2017
The red button in Trump's Oval Office launches Cokes – not nukes https://t.co/z265Gms2l3 pic.twitter.com/U1miq2Tl7o
— U.S. News (@usnews) April 30, 2017
What happens when you push the red button on President Trump's desk in the Oval Office? #WHThisMorning pic.twitter.com/I7e8mLMhmg
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) May 1, 2017
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 31, 2017
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