{"id":104539,"date":"2018-01-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=104539"},"modified":"2018-01-04T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:49:07","slug":"tillerson-caught-under-trumps-desk-disconnecting-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/01\/tillerson-caught-under-trumps-desk-disconnecting-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillerson Caught Under Trump\u2019s Desk Disconnecting Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_104540\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Tillerson.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Tillerson-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Tillerson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Tillerson.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Doug Mills \/ NYT \/ Redux<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>3 Jan 2018 &#8211; <\/em>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was caught crouching under Donald J. Trump\u2019s Oval Office desk on Wednesday, in an attempt to disconnect Trump\u2019s newly installed nuclear button.<\/p>\n<p>The button, reportedly measuring a massive eight inches in diameter, has been a subject of considerable alarm for Trump\u2019s national-security team since he had it installed on his desk, earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>According to White House sources, Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and the national-security adviser H. R. McMaster drew straws late Tuesday night to determine who would carry out the high-stakes disconnection mission.<\/p>\n<p>After Tillerson drew the shortest straw, he decided to enter the Oval Office surreptitously Wednesday morning while Trump took a bathroom break.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State had crawled under the desk and was on the verge of disconnecting the gigantic button when he was surprised by the sudden entrance of Vice-President Mike Pence, who had arrived to deliver his daily praise of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Flustered, Tillerson muttered something about \u201clooking for my glasses\u201d and quickly exited.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson, who suffered a gash to the head when he bumped it on Trump\u2019s desk, was resting comfortably at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he was heard repeatedly mumbling the words \u201cbutton\u201d and \u201cmoron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>Andy Borowitz is a <\/em>New York Times<em> best-selling author and a comedian who has written for <\/em>The New Yorker<em> since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever <\/em>National Press Club<em> award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by <\/em>The New Yorker<em> in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/tillerson-caught-under-trumps-desk-disconnecting-nuclear-button\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Jan 2018 &#8211; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was caught crouching under Donald J. Trump\u2019s Oval Office desk on Wednesday, in an attempt to disconnect Trump\u2019s newly installed nuclear button. The button, reportedly measuring a massive eight inches in diameter, has been a subject of considerable alarm for Trump\u2019s national-security team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}