Trump queried the valet who brought him his Diet Cokes on how he could stay in office after the 2020 election, book says

• According to a forthcoming book, Trump said he wouldn't leave office after 2020.

• The person who brought the Diet Cokes to the Oval Office asked what Trump should do.

• CNN reported on information from the upcoming book.

According to a New York Times reporter's book, Donald Trump asked his aides if he should stay in office after the 2020 election.

CNN reported on the details from the upcoming book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Break of America."

After losing the 2020 election, Trump told aides that he wouldn't step down. He told one, "I'm not going to leave," and added, "how can you leave when you won an election?"

According to the book, Trump asked the valet to deliver his Diet Cokes to his desk in the Oval Office about what steps he would take to win the election.

Trump had a wooden call box on the desk in the Oval Office that he used to summon his aides with. The red call button on the box was designated by Trump as a signal for an aide to bring him a cold glass of Diet Coke, his favorite beverage.

The red button made MarkMeadows nervous when he first saw it as a member of Congress.

The button looked like it could be used to launch a nuclear missile or to order the team into action.

I braced for a sonic boom, broken glass, or cloud of smoke. It was "impressive" to see the button immediately conjure a valet with a glass of Diet Coke for Trump.

The red button and wooden call box were removed from the desk by President Joe Biden when he took office.

The tense atmosphere in the White House during those days is detailed in the book. The senior White House advisor and Trump's son-in-law compared going into the Oval Office to a funeral proceeding according to CNN.

When asked why he wasn't going into the Oval Office with a group of other aides to brief Trump, he joked that the priest would come later.

Business Insider has an article on it.