CNN cut back to Trump, who embarked on a four-minute tale about ink pens, with a brief discursion into his ongoing grievances against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and renovations at the central bank's headquarters, and the entire room burst into laughter as he wrapped up his story and handed off to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.Fact check: true!
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
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 don't know. It's kid getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is.Yeah...no.
I had another problem. They didn’t write well. I sign—no ink. I have all you people looking and say there must be something wrong with Trump. There is no ink in the pen. It cost $1,000.
You can spend $1000 on very high end fountain pens. I seriously doubt Trump could use one. Most people can’t, these days. Books are available now, to instruct on how to use them. Which is reason to conclude no one in the White House is passing out $1000 pens, to children or anyone else.$1000 pens. pic.twitter.com/fj75PIgh7Z
— KevinlyFather 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇼🇸🇿 (@KevinlyFather) March 26, 2026
Although I’m sure Trump is already seeking a supplier for $1500 Trump MAGA sharpies. With gold (colored) ink, of course.
Only the best gaudiest.
Nixon drunk and nuts was entirely more together than Trump sober and senile. But he was never much better even before he was senile. If you don't use it you lose it. Only what's worse, him being what he is as president or our system that allows him to remain there exercising power?
ReplyDeleteI gave up a fountain pen for music manuscript as soon as I could, and the one that I had to get for that wasn't cheap. But it wasn't anything like that expensive. It was when I found out Steve Reich used pencil for manuscript and he's Xerox that, it's actually superior to my pen manuscript.
The only pen I use now is the Pilot G-2 and I only do that on the rare occasions I have to take shorthand. Otherwise I use Ticonderoga pencils, which aren't what they used to be (company got bought out) but I've got a huge stash my sister had left over when she retired from teaching. I type out everything.
I’ve used a fountain pen since high school. It doesn’t even occur to me that it’s different. Of course, I type everything now. But I sign cards, and (very rarely) letters. (I started using it because my handwriting with a ballpoint became illegible, and I had to rewrite an English essay so the teacher could read it. Fountain pens slowed me down. But not long enough for my hand to stay legible. I printed, which helped. But eventually that sped up, too. )
DeleteI have to print out everything in block capitols if I want it to be legible. It's the only why I don't have the worst handwriting in my family, though all the teachers in my family have really good handwriting I and two of my sibs have terrible handwriting.
DeleteIn my early days of having passed the Bar, I dreamed of signing pleadings with a Mont Blanc Meisterstucke. I got over it. I had a very nice Pelikan which dried up from neglect because I quit signing pleadings, wrote sermons on the computer, graded essays with red ballpoints and then online, and just generally forgot my nice pen existed. I have a few now, don’t use them much, and take care of them. My handwriting is atrocious. Even I struggle with it. Too many years of note taking in lecture courses….
DeleteHe should use a fountain pen to sign the money. That would almost be funny.
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