You just have to love this guy…. Earlier today, while holding a Cabinet Meeting, President Trump suddenly went off on a tangent after seeing one of his black Sharpie pens in front of him, and told a previously-untold story about how he cut the cost of White House pens from $1,000/pen to $5/pen and how the company actually wanted to give him the pens for free. This is VINTAGE Trump, so good. Watch here: 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 Backup video here on Rumble if needed (with captions added): FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump: For 25 million and it would be better, it would be better. See this pen right here? This pen is 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 wanna give too much publicity, but they do treat me well, Sharpie. So, so I came here, they have thousand-dollar pens. And you know, you hand pens out, you’re signing and you’re handing them out, you’re handing them to all these people. Sometimes you have 30, 40 people, and they were a thousand dollars a piece. Beautiful pen, ballpoint, 1000. It was gold, silver, gorgeous, but I’m handing out to kids that don’t even know what the hell “What is this, Mommy?” These kids, they’re getting a pen for a thousand dollars. They have no idea what it is. And I’m—and I feel guilty because I’m like, you know, I’m, by nature I, I don’t—you know, it’s the government. I love the government like I love myself economically. I wanna save money. So I’m saying, “This is crazy.” And it had another problem. They didn’t write well. So I take it out and I sign and there’s no ink. And I got all you people looking and you’re saying, “There must be something wrong with Trump.” And I’m signing and there’s no ink in the pen, and it costs a thousand dollars. Guess what? I called the guy. I said, “I’d like to use your pen, but I can’t have a gray 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, 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 it. I could do like Biden did, you know? Give it to, uh, somebody else to sign or an autopen or maybe sign it separately in another room, but I can’t use your pen.” He said, “Well, I 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, uh, 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 sitting there and I thought of this as an example of how 25 million dollars spent by me at the Federal Reserve Building would be a better job than four billion dollars that they’re spending. And you know one of the things that Kevin Warsh told me?