Sanders held up a slip of paper, saying this was how she was told to convey the sensitive information. But his Diet Coke button indeed works.īefore dawn in a windowless room in a Seoul hotel, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gathered a group of reporters sworn to secrecy to inform them of their next destination.

In reality, there’s no such thing as a nuclear button for the president to launch a nuclear attack.

Months later, Trump would tweet about another “button” in a taunt to the North Koreans, declaring, “my Button works!” Moments before pressing the button, in the middle of an answer about his dealings with China, he said to me without skipping a beat: “Do you want a Coke or anything?” Trump was still relatively new in office and seemed to relish the trappings of his new digs. Instead, a White House butler walked in with a single glass of Diet Coke on a silver tray for the commander in chief. It didn’t trigger a nuclear launch or send advisers scurrying into the room. Midway through my April 23, 2017, interview with President Donald Trump, he reached over and pressed a red button on his desk in the Oval Office. Here are some of the more memorable moments from the AP reporters tasked with covering this whirlwind presidency: WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has proven himself an unconventional leader time and time again in his first year in office.

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