What a supposed hidden Coca-Cola and other objects from his new office reveal about Trump
Donald Trump called for the boycott of companies that have criticized the new electoral laws approved by Republicans in Georgia, norms that have been considered restrictive and even suppressive of the vote, and among the companies indicated by the former president is Coca-Cola.
Electoral reforms in Georgia were established under the pretext of expanding vote security and citizen confidence in elections, but it has been indicated that it is an attempt by Republicans to reduce the electoral turnout of groups that support Democrats, especially African Americans, and that all of this is based on the lie that the last elections of 2020 saw large-scale electoral fraud.
In Georgia the elections were won by incumbent President Joe Biden and the two Democratic Party Senate candidates, and although Republicans, Trump at the helm, alleged fraud, in the end there was no evidence of large-scale irregularities, multiple counts confirmed the triumph of Biden and even Republican state officials endorsed the electoral result and the legitimacy of the election.
Trump apparently has not been able to overcome it and therefore has called for a boycott against Coca-Cola and other companies and entities - including Major League Baseball, Delta airline and the courier company UPS - that have criticized these new electoral laws in Georgia, based on the falsehood of the electoral fraud against the former president.
It is common for Trump to call for a boycott of companies that criticize him or go against his obsessions and whims, but apparently in the present case his attack on Coca-Cola would be nothing more than a kind of hypocrisy.
That, at least, is what emerges from a photo of his new office.
Just had a terrific meeting with President Trump! pic.twitter.com/jGyAnURAky
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 5, 2021
The image, posted on Twitter by Stephen Miller, Trump's adviser and taken at the former president's office at his Mar-A-lago, Florida resort, has been widely commented on on social media. In general, because it would be an indication of the personality and image of Trump in his new stage after leaving the presidency and, specifically, because it suggests that his boycott against Coca-Cola would be a fallacy, a public relations outrage that, in reality, nor would he himself be willing to continue.
Users on social networks have noticed that in a corner of Trump's desk, behind a telephone, there is an object very similar to a glass bottle of Diet Coke.
That is, Trump would not be boycotting Coca-Cola but, on the contrary, consuming his products.
He’s hiding his Diet Coke bottle behind the phone a day after telling everyone to boycott Coca-Cola! https://t.co/K2is5hpl7o pic.twitter.com/idDtVtkBeM
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) April 5, 2021
And other objects seen in his office photo have also attracted attention. For example, according to a Politico count, two photographs stand out: one of the presidential plane, Air Force One, flying over Washington DC on July 4, 2020, and another of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, in front of Mount Rushmore (conspicuous by the heads of historic American presidents, a dream space for Trump, always adoring his own image).
The desk itself is curious: its style resembles that of the ‘Resolute Desk’, the desk in the White House Oval Office, suggesting that Trump would want to keep his presidential image, which is reinforced by the two photographs cited above.
His chair would be the same one he used in the Oval Office, which he would have brought to the White House from New York and which he has now placed in Mar-A-Lago, says Politico.
On the desk, pages of the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, whom Trump has criticized and downplayed but whom, like Coca-Cola, he apparently needs to consume.
There are also other examples of self-exaltation: a commemorative plaque of the border wall, which he promised to build along the entire border with Mexico but in reality the Trump administration only raised a few hundred miles, much of them replacing existing fences. It was, thus, a failed promise, but Trump apparently chooses to boast of it as one of the achievements of his mandate.
His egotism is again evidenced by the fact that, in his office, Trump has a statue of himself and, in parallel, something that is common for people to have in his workplace, are family photographs: images of his father Fred Trump and his mother Mary Anne, his wife Melania and their children.
Certainly, everyone can decorate his office or his house as he prefers, and Trump does it in his peculiar style, in which there is a lot of his personality and also of marketing. For the former president, his image is everything. Even with a supposed Coca-Cola, boycotted and consumed at the same time.
