For more than a century, nearly every American President has used a splendid desk that, in another life, sailed the seas.

H.M.S. Resolute was commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Belcher during his search for the Northwest Passage. Sent to find missing Arctic explorers, it was abandoned by its crew in 1852. American whalers later discovered the ship, and it was purchased, fitted, and restored by the American government and sent to Queen Victoria as a gift from the President and the American people. When the ship was finally broken up, her timbers were carved into the elaborate desk, then presented to President Rutherford Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1879 as a token of friendship and goodwill. American Presidents have conducted the country’s business across the Resolute Desk ever since.

Every President since Hayes, except Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford, has used it, and it remains unchanged from the original except for the addition of the central panel, carved with the Presidential Seal, ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt to conceal his leg braces from view.

So, Barry, get your bloody feet off it you tosser.