Sharpie Rebuts Trump's Account of Phone Call With Company: 'We Don't Have Any Information About the Conversation'

[BumRushDaShow]

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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[2naSalit]

1. This keeps happening...

And now, not to come to his defense, I wonder if his staffers are doing in-house calls to the president from another room making him think he;s talking to some of these 'people'. That's aside from the ones that only he can hear on his head.

[Goonch]

2. ;-{) Gift Shop

[lostnfound]

3. Was he 'riffing' or prattling, blathering? Be more precise WP.

sanewashing.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Posterity will never forgive us,

It was staring us in the face all this time. The demented man in the Oval Office has been taking us done into his rabbit hole all this time.

Chris Christie: "Trump looked at my wife and said, whether it's true or not, if I say enough times, it becomes true. It's not if he said it enough times, people believe it. No. It becomes true. There's a megalomania. He takes what he knows is incorrect and convinces himself by saying enough times.”

[Botany]

5. The man is barking @ the moon crazy.

He has to go now.

[Martin Eden]

6. Sharpie Disputes the Dullard

That should be the headline of the story.

[70sEraVet]

7. Has a nice ring to it.

Or, 'Demonstrating he's not the Sharpie-est pen in the box'?

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. What? Trump lied? Shocked, I tells ya. Shocked!