Just had a terrific meeting with President Trump! pic.twitter.com\/jGyAnURAky<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 5, 2021<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n POLITICO decided to do its own deep dive into Trump\u2019s office, with the help of four former White House officials. Here\u2019s our best reported effort to figure out which mementos the 45th president chose to keep around him in his new Florida life \u2014 and what it says about how he views his legacy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo of Air Force One over Washington: <\/b>The West Wing in the White House has long featured a number of blown-up \u201cjumbo\u201d photos and this is one of Air Force One flying over<\/a> Washington near the Ellipse and the White House in the backdrop on July 4th, 2020 as part of the \u201cSalute to America.\u201d Trump paid close attention to his presidential airplane, adding more television screens and ordering up a new color scheme to replace the jet\u2019s iconic baby blue.<\/p>\n Photo of Marine One at Mount Rushmore:<\/b> Trump held a July 4 event last year at Mount Rushmore, and this photo of his presidential helicopter flying in front of Mount Rushmore memorializes the event. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem gave Trump a $1,100 replica of the monument featuring Trump\u2019s own face among the ex-presidents, but he appears to be missing here.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Newspaper:<\/b> Before the picture was taken, Trump seems to have been leafing through the Wall Street Journal, a paper whose editorial board has criticized<\/a> him for promoting false claims on voter fraud. Trump also issued a statement last month blasting the editors, saying<\/a>: \u201cThe Wall Street Journal editorial page continues, knowingly, to fight for globalist policies such as bad trade deals, open borders, and endless wars that favor other countries and sell out our great American workers, and they fight for RINOS that have so badly hurt the Republican Party. That\u2019s where they are and that\u2019s where they will always be. Fortunately, nobody cares much about The Wall Street Journal editorial anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Desk:<\/b> While Trump couldn\u2019t take the 141-year old Resolute Desk from the Oval Office, he now has a similar-looking desk that appears to be<\/a> the Telluride Wood Executive Desk<\/a> from \u201cHooker Furniture.\u201d The desk currently retails for $3,600 but is currently out of stock until late next month. <\/p>\n Chair: <\/b>Trump used the same chair in the Oval Office, which he brought down from New York, according to a former White House official.<\/p>\n The infamous Sharpie:<\/b> Trump also has at least one big black Sharpie \u2014 the fat, marker-like pen that he has wielded for years to write and autograph items for friends and allies, and occasionally to mark up critical articles he didn\u2019t like and send it to the offending journalist.<\/p>\n Reading glasses: <\/b>Trump is famously image-conscious and didn\u2019t like<\/a> to be seen wearing his reading glasses while in office, and few news photographers snapped pictures of him wearing them. The New York Times reported<\/a> in 2019 that Trump often didn\u2019t tweet when other people were around because he didn\u2019t want to have to wear glasses to see his phone screen. Dan Scavino, his longtime social media expert, often printed out suggested tweets in large fonts so Trump could sign off on them.<\/p>\n Bottle of Coke: <\/b>Trump, a long-time Diet Coke fanatic, appears to have a half-drunk glass bottle of Coke next to his phone even though he urged Americans to boycott Coca Cola, based in Georgia, for criticizing Georgia\u2019s new law that restricts voting. In a statement last Saturday, Trump said: \u201cBoycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck. Don\u2019t go back to their products until they relent. We can play the game better than them.\u201d<\/p>\n Plaque commemorating the border wall:<\/b> The former president has a piece of the U.S.-Mexico border wall that was one of his main 2016 campaign promises. While Trump had promised a \u201cbig beautiful wall,\u201d only 80 miles of new wall were built during his time in office out of a total of 452 miles of the wall built on his watch. The U.S. Border Patrol plaque praises Trump for \u201cdefending America\u2019s borders.\u201d iPhone: <\/b>Trump loved his iPhone, which he most famously used to tweet at all hours of the day to call up his friends that were part of his kitchen cabinet. Such calls often annoyed his aides, who fretted about what he was saying to his confidants.<\/p>\n Wooden box: <\/b>The box features Trump\u2019s signature and a presidential seal on the top of it. While it\u2019s unclear what he uses the box for, the former official said it might be where Trump keeps his trademark Sharpies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Challenge coins rack:<\/b> Challenge coins are coins often given to a recipient by a part or branch of the military, and they represent that division of the military. As president, Trump, who frequently extolled his buildup of the military, received numerous challenge coins. Trump also displayed these same challenge coins in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n Mug:<\/b> Trump has kept a white mug with the presidential seal.<\/p>\n A statue of himself:<\/b> No sources knew the provenance of this mini-bust of Trump, and a Trump spokesperson didn\u2019t share any details about it when asked about it. A former senior White House official said it was \u201cmost likely a gift that was sent in. We\u2019d get tons of those \u2014 paintings, statues, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n Family photos: <\/b>The photos are mostly photos that were also on the desk behind him in the Oval Office. Clockwise: his late father Fred Trump; Trump in a tuxedo; his children Eric, Ivanka, and Don Jr. in the back of Winfield House (the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the U.K.) when Trump went to<\/a> the U.K. in June 2019; wife Melania Trump; Trump\u2019s late mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump; Trump and an unidentified other person walking in the West Wing Colonnade and an unidentified other photo. In the very middle of the desk is Trump with son Barron in New York, likely at Trump Tower. Trump only kept a few photos behind his desk for the first few years of his term, but then in the last 18 months, a number of more photos were added, according to a former White House official.<\/p>\n Lamps:<\/b> The former White House official said the lamps are likely Mar-a-Lago lamps based on the decor of the resort.<\/p>\nWhat are the photos on his wall?<\/h2>\n
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iPhone: Trump loved his iPhone, which he most famously used to tweet at all hours of the day to call up his friends that were part of his kitchen cabinet. Such calls often annoyed his aides, who fretted about what he was saying to his confidants.<\/p>\nWhat about those tables in the back?<\/h2>\n
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