Donald Trump has temporarily removed the iconic resolute agency used by his democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama of the Oval Office and replaced by the C&O agency.
Entertained from the once advanced British Arctic Exploration Ship The HMS Resolute and donated to President Rutherford Haye by Queen Victoria in 1880, the Resolute Bureau was used by almost every American leader in West Wing.
The determined agency marks one of the six – together with the C&O, Theodor Roosevelt, Hoover, Johnson and Wilson – who have been placed in the Oval Office as a symbol of someone's presidency since the construction of the Chamber in 1909, along with offering A practical workspace.
Now Trump has revealed that the determined desk must be refurbished and instead has chosen to bring a 'beautiful', albeit 'temporarily'.
“A president, after election, gets a choice from 1 in 7 agencies,” Trump wrote about Truth Social on Wednesday and seemed to be skewed.
C&O stands for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway while the office was originally built for the owners of the company. It was donated in 1987 by the GSX Corporation, a Mass Rail Transit Company, at the White House.
Donald Trump, Pictyured sitting at the Resolute Desk last month, announced that the Oval Office has a temporary make -over (Getty Images)
“This agency, the 'C&O', which is also well known and was used by President George HW Bush and others, is temporarily installed in the White House, while the determined desk is slightly finished-a very important task. This is a beautiful but temporary replacement! “
Since 1977, the Resolute Desk has remained a strong fixture in the Oval Office and used by every President Bar Georgie WH Bush, who chose the C&O agency. Bush Sr is the only president who uses the C&O agency and marks it as the shortststeerse desk so far.
Other established operators, such as Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, used the C&O agency in the West Wing study.
It is assumed that only three presidents did not use the determined agency at all in the West Wing: Lydon B Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ford, according to the White House Historical Association.
Predent George WH Bush meets, among other things, secretary Dick Cheney while he is at the C&O Desk (US National Archives and Records Administration)
The determined desk was first used in the Oval Office by John F Kennedy in 1961. After the murder of JFK in 1963, who saw Johnson rising to the Oval Office, he chose the Johnson agency.
After he had retired, the determined desk was then shown in the Smithsonian between 1966 and 1977, when Jimmy Carter brought the determined desk back to the Oval Office.
The Resolute Desk was recently used by Democratic former presidents Biden between 2021 and 2025 and Obama between 2009 and 2017. Trump also used the agency in his first term between 2017 and 2021.
The independent has contacted the White House for more information.
