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 ...

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 ...

The rug, which was in place during Ronald Reagan's administration and during Trump's first term, was reinstalled during Trump ...

Most recently, the Resolute Desk was used by Democratic former presidents Biden between 2021 and 2025 and Obama between 2009 and 2017. Trump also used the desk in his first term between 2017 and 2021.

The Resolute Desk has been used in the Oval Office by every president since Jimmy Carter brought it back in 1977, except for George H.W. Bush, who used the C&O desk.

Time published its latest cover Friday morning, featuring a striking image of a government leader sitting behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. But it's not President Donald Trump. It's ...

President Donald Trump holds up the letter that former President Joe Biden left for him in the desk as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in ...

Trump‘s second Oval Office got its big debut Monday, including the return of an Andrew Jackson portrait and the reemergence of the Reagan rug.