Sharpie Rebuts Trump's Account of Phone Call With Company: 'We Don't Have Any Information About the Conversation'
Source: MEDIAite
Mar 27th, 2026, 7:04 pm
According to a Friday Washington Post report, Sharpie parent company Newell Brands denied President Donald Trump’s retelling of a phone call with the brand, saying in a statement, “We don’t have any information about the conversation described.” The response comes after Trump used part of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting to tell a long story about allegedly haggling over the price and appearance of the customized markers he uses to sign official documents.
While riffing on design, spending, and the look of official government materials, Trump held up a customized black pen and launched into a winding anecdote about why he wanted a more polished version of the marker. “This pen is an interesting example,” Trump said. “This pen is very inexpensive, but it writes well. I like it.” Trump then claimed he personally called the company to complain that the standard Sharpie branding was too ordinary for high-profile presidential signings.
“I called the guy, I said, ‘I’d like to use your pen, but I can’t have a great 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. According to Trump, the company head offered to upgrade the pens by painting them black, adding a gold White House emblem, and even printing Trump’s signature on them. Trump also said the executive initially offered the pens for free before he insisted on paying. “I said, ‘How about five bucks a pen?’” Trump recalled. “He said, ‘That’s all right.’”
Yet when WaPo’s Isaac Arnsdorf presented Newell Brands with a transcript of Trump’s comments, the company rejected the story. “We don’t have any information about the conversation described,” a spokesperson said. “We’re proud to be a beloved brand trusted by so many globally.”
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Kudos to the “Rapid Response Team” for this.
Artists are Trump’s eternal nemesis—they (we) will never support him.
The drive for artists is to create something unique for an audience. They work at their craft, guided by their Muse.
Trump never does something for others. He never has a creation that requires work. He’s fucking stupid, selfish, and lazy.
And artists? 100% liberals. Conservatives, by analytic definition, refuse to think outside the box. They have no vision, no sense of humor. They can’t think outside the box the moment they sign their name to their MAGA membership card.
Again, kudos to the artists who created this—you get it.
although his description of it is clearly BS like everything else he has ever spewed forth in his life.
Sometimes presidents order stuff. Here's a real audio recording of President Johnson ordering pants from Haggar. 
He's a chatbot. Probably programmed by ChatGOP.
And Miller's pulling the levers on his rotted corpse.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/
Judge for yourself.
Tue, Apr 29th 2025 09:34am - Mike Masnick
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But over the last few months, it has occurred to me that, for all the hype about generative AI systems “hallucinating,” we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing, nearly every day. The more you look at the way Donald Trump spews utter nonsense answers to questions, the more you begin to recognize a clear pattern — he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.
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This is not the response of someone working from actual knowledge or policy understanding. Instead, it’s precisely how an LLM operates: taking a prompt (the question about job losses) and generating text based on some core parameters (the “system prompt” that requires deflecting blame and asserting greatness).
The hallmarks of AI generation are all here:
• Confident assertions without factual backing
• Meandering diversions that maintain loose semantic connection to the topic
• Pattern-matching to previous responses (“ripped off,” “billions of dollars”)
• Optimization for what sounds good rather than what’s true
the (very much certified) Contracting Officer(s) does/do.
So it's the usual bullshitting and rambling that he can't stop doing to puff himself up in front of a crowd. 
(if anything the "$1 trillion" figure was a blaring red flag as it is)