What pens did President Trump use today to sign the executive orders?

[efpen]

Today right after inauguration  President Trump signed several executive orders in front of TV cameras. It seems that he used a bunch of identical pens. I am curious what are they? Are they markers?

 

[Doug C]

I think they were sharpies. 

[two2tone]

Sharpies in a custom holder.  That's why his signature is so thck.

[efpen]

Is the sharpies' ink archival quality?

[markofp]

From the Daily Mirror:

 

"I was signing documents with a very expensive pen and it didn’t write well," Trump said back in 2018. "It was a horrible pen, and it was extremely expensive."

"And then I started using just a Sharpie, and I said to myself, well wait a minute, this much writes much better and this cost almost nothing."

[inkstainedruth]

I suspect the real reason wasn't the price so much as that he couldn't write his signature as big as he wanted ( saw the same news coverage of him signing executive orders....

Because I bet he's never seen a Speedball dip pen (I recall some of the nibs on those being exceptionally broad).

Of course, I'm now wondering what his definition of a "a very expensive pen" is....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[two2tone]

16 hours ago, efpen said:

Is the sharpies' ink archival quality?

Word deleted, no.

[LeakyLandy]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

I suspect the real reason wasn't the price so much as that he couldn't write his signature as big as he wanted ( saw the same news coverage of him signing executive orders....

Because I bet he's never seen a Speedball dip pen (I recall some of the nibs on those being exceptionally broad).

Of course, I'm now wondering what his definition of a "a very expensive pen" is....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Charles probably gave Trump one of his rejects.

[Estycollector]

4 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I suspect the real reason wasn't the price so much as that he couldn't write his signature as big as he wanted ( saw the same news coverage of him signing executive orders....

Because I bet he's never seen a Speedball dip pen (I recall some of the nibs on those being exceptionally broad).

Of course, I'm now wondering what his definition of a "a very expensive pen" is....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

No doubt a Mont Blanc 149. In the 1990's when I bought one, they were the pocket candy of choice. 

[lamarax]

I thought I've seen Obama in a still years ago, sign some kind of foreign agreement with a MB 149 PT.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Truman used Esterbooks....

 

 

Just once for an MB..... Well....

Now, I'm not going to say anything about ham-fisted, but Truman wasn't.

[kestrel]

Lyndon Johnson used Esterbrooks also.  And Eversharps.  Photos of Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964 show a veritable forest of Esterbrook desk pens waiting to be used.

[kazoolaw]

On 1/21/2025 at 6:34 PM, lamarax said:

I thought I've seen Obama in a still years ago, sign some kind of foreign agreement with a MB 149 PT.

Vague recollection of a photo of JFK loaning his 149 to Adenauer at a signing.

[kazoolaw]

Sharpie archival claim:

Water-based, acid-free, archival-quality, and AP certified formula

www.sharpie.com/markers/chalk-paint-markers/sharpie-water-based-paint-markers-fine-point/SAP_36671.html

 

 

[Claes]

@kazoolaw

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-john-f-kennedy-signing-the-golden-book-of-the-city-of-cologne-on-23-131773433.html

 

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

[kazoolaw]

Thanks-I haven’t entirely lost it!

[mr T.]

On 1/21/2025 at 3:55 PM, markofp said:

 

From the Daily Mirror:

 

"I was signing documents with a very expensive pen and it didn’t write well," Trump said back in 2018. "It was a horrible pen, and it was extremely expensive."

"And then I started using just a Sharpie, and I said to myself, well wait a minute, this much writes much better and this cost almost nothing."

That horrible pen was made by Cross? 

 

[Chris1]

On 1/21/2025 at 7:04 PM, LeakyLandy said:

Charles probably gave Trump one of his rejects.

Just seen this! Hahahahahaha 

[Estycollector]

I thought everyone signed with a Sharpie. John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independance with a bold and large letters? So that King George would not need his glasses. He was already somebody who had skin in the game by the time he decided to sign the document. Don't confuse Mr. Handcock with anyone who might use large letters today. 

[MuddyWaters]

Can we close this thread please? It's not even a fountain pen anyway.