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PCIntern

(25,592 posts) Fri Aug 25, 2017, 05:53 PM Aug 2017

WTF is it with this "Resolute Desk" crap?

I guess the Orange-utan is Resolute and sturdy.

Yes I saw the film "National Treasure". But MSNBC and CNN have been saying he's at the Resolute Desk for days now.

I call bullshit.

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WTF is it with this "Resolute Desk" crap? (Original Post) PCIntern Aug 2017 OP

Maybe the SNL skits with the mini desk struck a nerve. tanyev Aug 2017 #1

Sorry, but what's your point? PJMcK Aug 2017 #2

It's been a WH fixture for decades -- made from oak timbers of the H.M.S. Resolute. eppur_se_muova Aug 2017 #3

tanyev

(42,623 posts)

1. Maybe the SNL skits with the mini desk struck a nerve.

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Fri Aug 25, 2017, 05:57 PM

Aug 2017

PJMcK

(22,052 posts)

2. Sorry, but what's your point?

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Fri Aug 25, 2017, 05:59 PM

Aug 2017

Respectfully, what are you writing about?

We all hate Trump. Is there something specific about the "Resolute Desk" that I'm missing in your post?

Thanks and cheers.

eppur_se_muova

(36,299 posts)

3. It's been a WH fixture for decades -- made from oak timbers of the H.M.S. Resolute.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Fri Aug 25, 2017, 06:17 PM

Aug 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk

Not sure why the talking heads keep referring to it -- but it's just another way of saying "in the Oval Office", and everyone knows what that means.

What they need to find a catchy way of saying is "excavating the sand trap at Hole 7".

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