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We did it. We made it to inauguration day, which shouldn’t be a huge deal but let’s be honest, it felt a little touch and go for a while there. The Biden-Harris administration’s to-do list is a mile long, but they’ve already started making changes. We’re gonna skip over Biden firing three Trump appointees who are the embodiment of evil, reinstating DACA protections, and rejoining the Paris climate accord and move right on to the stuff that really matters, which is the news that President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button.
“What is the Diet Coke button” you ask?
Well, first of all, apparently this is not actual “news” and was covered at the very beginning of Trump’s presidency. Sims 4 cc ethnic hair. I have no memory of that whatsoever, though, either because I just never saw any of the coverage or because the subsequent four year onslaught of absolute fucking hell that ensued took priority in my brain. In any case, I’m definitely not the only one who has just now been made aware of the Diet Coke button.
The Diet Coke button is (or rather, was) a discreet red button atop an inconspicuous wooden box that sat on the Oval Office desk, and when President Trump pressed said button a butler would arrive swiftly with a glass filled with Diet Coke on a silver platter.
President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button. When @ShippersUnbound and I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we became fascinated by what the little red button did. Eventually Trump pressed it, and a butler swiftly brought in a Diet Coke on a silver platter. It's gone now. pic.twitter.com/rFzhPaHYjk
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) January 21, 2021
If someone had told me four years ago that that’s a sentence I would someday type I probably would have responded, “Is it crack?? Are you smoking crack?? Because it sounds like you’re smoking crack.”
You probably have questions. I have questions. Who was assigned to the Diet Coke button? Did they have other duties or was that their exclusive post? What was the hiring process like? Was there a special, Diet-Coke-Only mini fridge? Just how extensive is the therapy they’re for sure now going through after spending years delivering Diet Coke to Donald Trump and reflecting on the life choices that led them there during every walk to the Oval Office? I would watch the shit out of a 3-part doc-series solely about the people who manned the Diet Coke button for four years, but we’re probably not going to get one so we don’t have many answers, but we do have one undeniable fact. Bernina virtuosa 150 manual. I hate that I’m going to say this.
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Sigh.
The Diet Coke button rules.
I’m not happy about it, but it rules. Personally I hate Diet Coke, but the fact that there was an official button on a goddamn wood-finish box that could summon essentially a Diet Coke genie is, unfortunately, cool as fuck. Like that is some Scrooge McDuck shit. That is what middle schooler career fantasies are made of. That’s the American dream, baby. I understand now how people get addicted to power, because this is fucking tight.
The only thing as indisputably true as the Diet Coke button kicks ass is that anyone who agrees that the Diet Coke button kicks ass, myself included, should never be in charge of the country.
i would give it all up for diet coke button pic.twitter.com/DSnLfqWQta
— dan yang (@realDANYANG) January 21, 2021counteroffer: defund the police and keep the diet coke button https://t.co/S5ZzEnDDKf
— jamieloftus (@jamieloftusHELP) January 21, 2021I praised Trump for his Little Red Diet Coke Button™️ and I’m gonna need some time to adjust to its unceremonious removal. https://t.co/9wg8APNKvU
— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) January 21, 2021Ngl having a Diet Coke button sounds tight https://t.co/Mv5O7bSmcB
— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) January 21, 2021| Born | Thomas Zoltan Newton Dunn 16 December 1973 (age 47) |
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| Education | Marlborough College |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Employer | Times Radio |
| Spouse(s) | (m. 2004) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
Thomas Zoltan Newton Dunn[1] (born 16 December 1973), known as Tom Newton Dunn, is an English broadcast journalist and former newspaper journalist. Since 2020 he has been chief political commentator at Times Radio, and co-presents the station's Sunday morning politics programme 'G&T' with Gloria de Piero.[2] He was the political editor of The Sun from 2009 to 2020, having previously worked for ten years as a defence journalist and foreign reporter.
Before joining Times Radio, Newton Dunn regularly appeared on the BBC and Sky News, and was one of the hosts of BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster. He also appeared on the now-defunct What the Papers Say.
Early life and family[edit]
Newton Dunn was born in St Pancras, London, to Bill Newton Dunn, a Conservative and later Liberal DemocratMember of the European Parliament, and his Hungarian-born wife Anna Arki.
He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire[3] and the University of Edinburgh, receiving an MA Honours degree in English Literature.
Between 2005 and 2014, his mother ran the European Movement Speaker Service, which provided 'Pro Europe speakers for educational establishments and civic societies to debate all aspects of Britain's membership of the EU'.[4] His father, who was a strong supporter of the UK adopting the Euro currency, defected from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats in 2000 due to the party's Euroscepticism.[5]
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Career[edit]
Newton Dunn joined The Daily Telegraph as a diary reporter for the Peterborough column in 1996, moving to the Daily Mirror to join its graduate trainee scheme the following year. He spent several years (1999–2001) with the Mirror as a news reporter, before being made the paper's defence correspondent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and covering the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.
In 2004, he moved to The Sun as the paper's defence editor. He was promoted to the role of political editor there in 2009, although it was intended for him to remain involved in the title's defence coverage.[6]
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During his time at The Sun, he was a broadcast commentator on politics, appearing on BBC Two's Sunday Politics programme, and occasionally hosting BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster. Newton Dunn has also been a panellist on Any Questions?, and reviewed the papers on Sky News. Before the programme's demise he sometimes hosted What the Papers Say.
Newton Dunn left The Sun to become a presenter and chief political commentator at the newly-formed Times Radio in summer 2020. He was replaced as political editor by Harry Cole.[7]
In March 2021 Newton Dunn began writing a weekly political column for the Evening Standard in the slot left vacant by the departure of editor-in-chief George Osborne.[8]
Awards[edit]
Newton Dunn won the Scoop of the Year award at the 2008 British Press Awards for revealing the cockpit tapes behind the Matty Hull friendly fire incident.[9] He also won Scoop of the Year for the Matty Hull friendly fire incident story at the 2007 What The Papers Say Awards.[10]
In 2015, he won the Politics Journalism award at the annual British Journalism Awards[11] for revealing the Plebgate scandal, which was successfully defended from a libel suit brought by Conservative MP and former Government Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell. He was threatened with arrest by the police if he didn't reveal his sources for Plebgate and did not do so.[12][13]
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Far-right conspiracy incident[edit]
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In December 2019, Newton Dunn wrote an article for The Sun titled ''HIJACKED LABOUR'', in which he reported that former British intelligence officers had produced a chart alleging that 'Jeremy Corbyn is at the centre of an extraordinary network of hard-left extremists'.[14][15][16] It later emerged that the ultimate sources for these claims included the antisemitic, far-right websites Aryan Unity and the Millennium Report, the latter described by Vice as 'an antisemitic conspiracy site known for publishing articles with titles like, 'The Jewish Hand in World Wars''.[17][18][19] The 'HIJACKED LABOUR' thesis was described as a 'far-right conspiracy theory' by Daniel Trilling in The Guardian.[18] The left-wing magazines Tribune and Jacobin argued that such articles were a danger to journalists and those on the political left, with Jacobin calling the chart a 'hit list'.[19][20] Newton Dunn's article was deleted on the same day of its publication, without comment from him or his newspaper.[18][17] The Independent Press Standards Organisation subsequently confirmed to The Guardian that it had received a complaint concerning the piece, and Peter Geoghegan of openDemocracy expressed his strong concern at his organisation being named as part of this alleged network.[21]
Publications[edit]
Newton Dunn has ghost-written two non-fiction books by military veterans:
- Sniper One (2006) by Sgt. Dan Mills – ISBN978-0141029016
- Apache (2008) by Ed Macy – ISBN978-0007288175
References[edit]
- ^'Find My Past'. Search.findmypast.co.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'The Sun's Tom Newton Dunn joins Times Radio'.
- ^Millett, Tony (19 July 2013). 'Summer school question time: after Mandela, after that royal birth – and the costs of old age'. Marlborough News.
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- ^'UK news in brief'. The Guardian. 25 September 2000. Retrieved 11 November 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Tryhorn, Chris (15 October 2009). 'Sun political editor George Pascoe-Watson to join Tim Allan's PR agency'. The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2015.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Tobitt, Charlotte (14 May 2020). 'Harry Cole named new Sun political editor as Tom Newton Dunn leaves for Times Radio'. Press Gazette. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^Tom Newton Dunn [@tnewtondunn] (29 March 2021). 'Huge shoes to fill, but I'm thrilled to be writing a political column for the @EveningStandard every Wednesday' (Tweet). Retrieved 30 March 2021 – via Twitter.
- ^'British Press Awards 2008 - winners'. The Guardian. Retrieved 22 December 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'What the Papers Say Awards: Full list of winners'. The Guardian. 21 December 2007.
- ^'Jonathan Calvert of Sunday Times is Journalist of the Year: British Journalism Awards full list of winners'. Press Gazette. London. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 11 November 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Kakar, Arun. 'Tom Newton Dunn: 'You've got to protect your sources and go to some lengths to do that''. Press Gazette. Retrieved 22 December 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Blanchard, Paul. 'Tom Newton Dunn: Political Editor, The Sun'. Media Masters. Retrieved 22 December 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Newton Dunn, Tom (7 December 2019). ''HIJACKED LABOUR' Ex-British intelligence officers say Jeremy Corbyn is at the centre of a hard-left extremist network'. The Sun. Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Dyer, Henry. 'Mysterious 'tnewtondunn' attempts to wipe controversy from Sun political editor's Wikipedia page'. Scram. Retrieved 22 December 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Butler, James. 'What Happened?'. London Review Of Books.
Tom Newton Dunn, published a map of 'Corbyn’s hard-left extremist network', linking the IRA, Channel 4 journalists, radicalised junior doctors and Jacques Derrida. The piece was silently disappeared shortly after it emerged that it had been sourced from white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites.
- ^ abRickett, Oscar (9 December 2019). 'A History of Labour as a 'Terrifying National Threat''. Vice. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ abcTrilling, Daniel (9 December 2019). 'Why did the Sun publish a far-right conspiracy theory?'. The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ abFinn, Daniel (9 December 2019). 'The Sun is Going to Get People Killed'. Tribune. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^Foster, Dawn (11 December 2019). 'Something Frightening Is Happening in British Politics'. Jacobin. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^Waterson, Jim (9 December 2019). 'Mail on Sunday made false claims about Labour's tax plans'. The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
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| Preceded by George Pascoe-Watson | Political Editor of The Sun 2009–2020 | Succeeded by Harry Cole |