"See this pen right here? This pen is a an interesting example. It's the same thing. So this pen is very inexpensive but it writes well. I like it. But I can't have the pen the way it was. You know what it is. I don't want to give too much publicity, but they do treat me well. Sharpie. So I came here and they have 1000 dollar pens. And you know you hand pens out and you sign and you're handing them out all these people sometimes you have 30, 40 people and they were a thousand dollar apiece. Beautiful pen. Ballpoint. Thousand. It was gold, silver, gorgeous, but I'm handing out to kids. They don't even know. "What is this mommy?" It's kids, they are getting a pen for 1000 dollars. They have no idea what it is and I feel guilty because I'm, like, you know, I am by nature, I don't, you know, it's the government. I love the government and I love myself economically. I want to save money so I'm saying this is crazy. And I had another problem. They didn't write well. So I take it out and I signed and there's no ink and I got all you people looking and you say "There must be something wrong with Trump" and I sign and there's no ink in the pen and it costs a thousand dollars. That's why I called a guy. I said "I'd like to use your pen but I can't have a grey thing with a big S on it saying Sharpie as I'm signing a trillion dollar airplane contract to buy brand new fighter jets, brand new B-2 bombers of which we just ordered plenty. I can't do that with the press, use your pen, but I like the pen the best but I'll sign I could like I do like Biden did, you know, give it to somebody else to sign or an autopen or maybe sign it separately in another but he can't use the pen. He said we can make it nicer. I said "What can you do?" He said "I'll paint it black". I said "That's nice" and "I can even paint a the white house on it, sir, if you like, in gold, almost real gold, not bad, and I can even do your signature, sir," and by the way this was not staged, I just saw the pen sit there and I saw that this is an example of how 25 million dollars spent by me at the Federal Reserve building would be a better job than 4 billion dollars that they're spending."
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"INKED WELL - Brilliant moment Trump rages for 5 minutes about $1,000 pens and says his $5 Sharpies are ‘Hot as a pistol’ The Sun (March 26, 2026)
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Donald Trump
business magnate, investor, politician
1946 · United States
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