Days after Elon Musk with his four-year-old son Little X visited the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump has removed the iconic 145-year old Resolute desk. The Resolute Desk is perhaps the most famous and well-known desk to adorn the Oval Office. It has been built from the remains of the British Arctic exploration vessel the HMS Resolute and presented by Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.