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At Hope and Peace Park, kids arrived on foot, in strollers and wagons, and some of them climbed the multi-colored contraption and tested the new slides as smiling parents looked on.

In the Oval Office, the Diet Coke button - a contraption installed in an ornate wooden box which allows the president to command his beverage of choice at any time of day - is back.

Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.

"One was for the haemorrhage machine," she recalls, describing a contraption which recreates post-birth blood loss.

They are already reportedly chafing at the Musk "DOGE" contraption since budgeting really is their bailiwick and they want to do the cutting themselves.