Object of the Week

Why Everyone Is Still So Fascinated With Trump’s Diet Coke Button

Explaining our obsession with the most banal gadget left in the Oval Office

Rob Walker
Marker
Published in
4 min readJan 28, 2021

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An image of the call button for the President in the Oval Office with the title text “Object of the Week”
Photo illustration, source: Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis/Getty Images

Object of the Week is a new column exploring the objects a culture obsesses over and what that reveals about us.

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