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 ...

Oval Office Desk Where Musk’s Son Seemed To Wipe His Finger Is ‘Being Lightly Refinished,’ Trump Says. Trump will temporarily use a desk once used by the elder President Bush. Elon Musk's 4-year-old ...

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 Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in ...

Executive orders regarding trade lay on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2017. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images) ...

Donald Trump has temporarily replaced the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office after Elon Musk's son seemingly wiped a booger on it during their viral visit to the White House last week.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's son X Æ A-Xii leans on the Resolute desk as US President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 11, 2025.

The Resolute Desk was first used in the Oval Office by John F Kennedy in 1961. After JFK’s assassination in 1963, which saw Johnson ascend to the Oval Office, he selected the Johnson Desk.

FILE – Executive orders regarding trade are placed on the desk for President Donald Trump to sign in the Oval Office at the White House, March 31, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) ...

Every president brings a personal touch to the Oval Office, and President Trump is going for gold. NPR's Michel Martin asks Washington Post senior critic Robin Givhan about the image that projects.

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.