President Donald Trump took nearly five minutes out of a Thursday Cabinet meeting to tell the country a rambling, completely made-up story about his beloved Sharpie pens.
In the middle of a discussion of the Trump administration’s plans to remodel the Kennedy Center, a possibly half-asleep Trump launched into a tangent about the Sharpie he was holding in his hand.
“This pen is an interesting example,” Trump declared. “This pen is very inexpensive, but it writes well. I like it.”
Trump then said that, after deciding he wanted a more official-looking Sharpie, he convinced the company to sell him personalized markers at $5 a pop. In his own words:
“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 $1 trillion airplane contract to buy brand new fighter jets.”
“He said, ‘I’ll paint it black.… And I can even paint the White House on it, sir, if you like, in gold.’ Almost real gold. Not bad. ‘And I can even do your signature, sir…. You don’t have to pay me, sir. I’ll give them to you for nothing.’”
“I said, ‘No, I don’t want that. Let me pay you. I want to pay you.’”
“‘No, sir. You don’t have to. You’re the President of the United States.’ He was shocked. The head of Sharpie. He gets a call. I don’t even know who the hell he is.”
“He said, ‘He’s really the president?... No, you don’t have to pay me, sir. This is such an honor.’ I said, ‘No, I want to pay you.’ And he said, ‘What would you like to pay?’” I said, ‘How about five bucks a pen?’ He said, ‘That’s all right.’”
In addition to this not actually being that of a good deal—you can buy your own Sharpie with your name and custom art for less than $2 on the official retailer’s website—Sharpie company officials promptly told The Washington Post that Trump’s story was false.
“We don’t have any information about the conversation described,” a spokesperson for the marker company said.
It remains to be seen whether a reporter will confront Trump or White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt about this fib. In any case, we can mark it as one of the more harmless lies on top of the tens of thousands of insidious ones the president has told since taking office for the first time in 2016.
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
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