Donald Trump is a big fan of Sharpies. Back in 2019, during his first term, he once used one to alter a map that showed the trajectory of a hurricane.
On Thursday, during a cabinet meeting amid war in Iran, a tumbling stock market, and surging gas prices, Trump got to talking about Sharpies again.
Per the AP, “during a Cabinet meeting Thursday that discussed the war in Iran, record-long security lines at many of the nation’s top airports, rising oil prices and skittish stock markets, the president interjected by holding up a custom-made black and gold Sharpie and offering a long story about how his preferred marker came to be a White House fixture.”
“See this pen right here?” Trump of the Sharpie. “This pen is an interesting example.” He then went on for more than five minutes about the pen.
Trump interrupts Cabinet meeting to talk about his Sharpie markers pic.twitter.com/bm2xUv8SiO
— Bad Press (@bptnetwork) March 27, 2026
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“I love the government like I love myself, economically. I want to save money,” Trump said in the monologue. “So I’m saying, ‘this is crazy.’ And it 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!’”
“For $5, I get a much better pen than for $1,000, and I can hand them out,” he said. “And, honestly, they’ve become hot as a pistol, so what can I tell you?”
Trump: You see this pen right here? This pen is very inexpensive. But it writes well. I like it. Sharpie. I came here. They had $1,000 pens. You hand out pens. You hand them to people. 30, 40 people. They were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pen, ball point. I hand out to kids that… pic.twitter.com/mrEXypiA0o
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 26, 2026
He really thinks everything he says is extraordinary and fascinating because he’s surrounded by yes men that laugh at everything he says and they tell him how great he is.
— VanillaTW (@vianitaikwann) March 27, 2026
Ohhhhkaaayyy https://t.co/wsrXugYQpe
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 26, 2026
Trump is busy firing $4 million Patriot Missiles at Iran’s $50,000 drones.
But don’t worry, he’s saving a lot of money on pens. https://t.co/lRTb0Pby89
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) March 26, 2026
Photo courtesy of an X screenshot.
