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    Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 26 Nov 2020

    Here’s the thing about the small desk Trump is sitting at. It’s like... a bill-signing desk. It’s meant to have a dozen or so people around it. I think it might be small so that more people can cram in for a photo op. It is not intended to be a desk you sit at alone.pic.twitter.com/LOc0M1bImE

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      2. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 26 Nov 2020

        Really, it’s not the desk that’s weird. This small desk has been used many, many times when Presidents sign bills into law.pic.twitter.com/71NSvgFJ71

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      3. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 26 Nov 2020

        Seriously. The desk is fine. Presidents have sat at this kind of desk for decades in signing ceremonies. What’s *weird* is that Trump would want to sit at this desk to answer questions from the press. Get up. Go to another room. Like the Press Briefing Room, for instance.pic.twitter.com/G4550kVOCA

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      4. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 26 Nov 2020

        This is not the first time Trump has sat at the bill-signing desk either. In fact, years ago, he even remarked, “This is a child’s desk, but that’s okay.” https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/325991-trump-mocks-childs-desk-at-bill-signing …pic.twitter.com/KWAzAmKPx9

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      5. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 26 Nov 2020

        (Like, I’m all for poking fun at this fuckin’ bozo. Knock yourselves out. But as per usual, it’s his *behavior* that makes him a dum dum, not the damn piece of furniture. This desk is pretty heckin’ standard. You don’t have to make this out to be something it isn’t.)

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      6. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        📝 Once again, I regret not turning off comments.

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      7. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        A few more things. I refuse to believe this was a “trick” or that it was a choice he made himself. Why not the Briefing Room? (podium) Why not the Oval? (desk) This seems to be a result of someone insisting he do this in the Mural Room, but I can’t figure out why.

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      8. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        It’s not unheard of to address the press in the “Diplomatic Reception Room” with a podium. And sometimes the desk is in this room! But not without signing a bill, I think. I did find instances of this desk in this room.pic.twitter.com/blXEZhOxsi

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      9. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        Fun Fact™: They have at least two of these desks. Sometimes there’s a signing ceremony with multiple parties. However sometimes they bring out a long table for signing ceremonies with more than two people. They also sometimes bring the small table into the Oval for guests (??)pic.twitter.com/R7svY50pHZ

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      10. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        Louie  👺 Retweeted Mike Monteiro 🌹

        A great observation here. The small desk *looks* shorter, but is really the same height as the Resolute Desk.https://twitter.com/monteiro/status/1332399354481577985 …

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        It’s weird seeing it next to the Resolute Desk and having them be the same height. It just seems… so much shorter.
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      11. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        Though Obama mostly used the same desk (1st), sometimes he did use some oddball desks (2nd and 3rd). I wish the Presidential Water Glass Table (4th) had a seal too, tbh.pic.twitter.com/0v1Fc29bEE

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      12. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        I think the current style of “bill-signing desk” has been used since maybe Jimmy Carter. I can find some similar kinds of desks before then, but they’re different. Nixon used a few.pic.twitter.com/jOv7Zd4MAX

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      13. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        Different ones still from LBJ. I can’t really seem to find any “small” desks during the Kennedy presidency from signing ceremonies. The further I go back, the more “normal-size” they start to appear.pic.twitter.com/zHoXloUf6s

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      14. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        Anyway, it’s just a bill-signing desk! It’s where you sign a piece of paper with 30 different pens and are surrounded by a bunch of supporters of that bill. It’s not a podium, where you stand to address people or take questions from the press.

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      15. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        If I had to guess, Trump wanted to sit rather than stand. But if so, why not in the Oval? Diplomatic Reception Room is 38’ 7¾” × 28’ 10½” Oval Office is 35’ 10” × 29’ The DRR is only *slightly* larger, but not large enough that it’d warrant that venue for COVID restrictions.

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      16. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        I’d bet that the DRR is more easily rearranged and less disruptive. Note: the furniture inside the DRR was moved out to accommodate the President, camera crews, and press. So if Trump wanted to sit, but didn’t want to have press in the Oval, moving the tiny desk is easy.pic.twitter.com/TzEpZ86Pjo

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      17. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        I wish there was more information about the mundane things in the White House, like why they use one room over another, or why a really pretty rug get replaced with a plain green carpet. For such a famous building, there’s VERY few high-quality photos and information about it.

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      18. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        OK. I’ll stop tweeting about the damn desk now. 👋 To all the new followers, hi. I never post about this kind of stuff so I hope you enjoy Disneyland, icon design, and playing cards.

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      19. Louie  👺‏Verified account @Mantia 27 Nov 2020

        I know, I know. I said I was done with the desk, but I am surprised how many people are convinced that it’s indicative that staffers have “given up.” Trump sat at this same desk, with the same seal, in the same room, in March of this year, and no one said a damn thing about it.pic.twitter.com/G9heWZr0OM

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